[This week we thought we’d share an interview with artist, Dominique de Varine, who calls Brittany home, but who we met in the Tibetan colonies of Northern India.]

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Mutable: I think a good place to start our conversation is Dharma and Karma, as this was where our conversation began. What is the relationship between Dharma and Karma in your work? Has it always been this way or has their relationship evolved over time? And also, was there a time when these concepts were not important to your work and some moment when they became more so?

Dominique de Varine: Karma, Dharma, I don't know what they are! I do have some ideas of course but fleeting ones that fade over time. When I started working on the series "Galipettes," the question it seemed capable of answering was that of emptiness. Over time, an echoing fullness invited itself in, playing an equal and dialectical role. A semiotic reading complements it, involving the opposition between engagement (narrative) and disengagement (narrative). Emptiness, disengagement in the here and now. Fullness, engagement in all the formations of the world. Hence, the Dharma and the Karma.