I do my best with my drawings, but you never know. What I would really like is that they see in my work diversity, poetry, feelings. In the United States they really like to label me “pop surrealism” and “lowbrow”, but I’m not just that. I have more than 40 books and only a small part are gothic, like “Ghoulish Tales”, or “Ghosts of Japan”, while “The best mom in the world” is full of color and brightness. There are people who say that my work is very dark and melancholic. Your work has been defined as “neogothic”, “pop surrealism”, or part of the “lowbrow” movement. We see that very well with the mother penguin: in an extremely cold environment, she goes on a trip to look for food, while the father raises the little one. Depending on where you are, you raise your children differently. But this book can also be read as an allegory of all the cultural diversity in motherhood. Human beings are especially ethnocentric when it comes to parenting, we see everything from the perspective of 21st century society. We see it in the case of psychopaths, with a childhood deprived of ties, of touch, of love, which makes them feel that disconnection with the rest as adults.Īre there animals that remind us of the darkest of humans? A “perfect family” can have all the money they need, but if there is no affection, tenderness, closeness, then there will be problems. The only important thing is the love given to children. Sometimes two, sometimes one, sometimes a grandmother, a grandfather. Actually, as she told me, children have the parents they have. Speaking to my mother, a psychologist who works for the French Ministry of Justice on cases involving children and young people who are victims of abuse, I asked her if it is really true that there is a perfect family. There are people who judge, who speak of the “natural order” of things. There will be those who say that they are just animal stories, and others who begin to ask themselves questions about these endless possibilities. The good thing about picture books is that they allow us to read them as a metaphor, without morals. The only species that views parenting with great dogmatism is the human.Ĭan seeing the different maternities in the animal world help human mothers to assume that role in a new way? When we see nature around us, we find a sample of diversity. Are we talking about a book for mothers or for children?įor both! It is a book that talks about the diversity of motherhood, which opens the reflection on the different ways of raising children.
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