Mirou was my childhood nickname, a tender name that stayed with me for many years. Much later, I discovered that in Japanese there is a nearly twin word: miru, 視る \miru, a verb that means to look, to observe, but also to contemplate and perceive what lies beyond the surface.

To this word, I associated ki, 気 \ki, a notion that evokes breath, energy, atmosphere, or sensation. A very similar character exists in Chinese, 氣 \ki, where it refers to the natural vital flow, pronounced chi. And in ancient Sumerian, 𒆠 \ki, it refers to the Earth and to the goddess who embodies it. In Japanese, the particle no simply links words together, much like our “of”.

This is how Miru no Ki was born: an expression that can be understood as “the spirit of Mirou”, but also as “the energy of the gaze”, a natural double meaning that connects my childhood to the way I see the world today.

Born in 1990 and trained in cinema and visual arts, I first studied directing, image and movement. At twenty, my path led me to fashion and textile design in Lyon, where I worked alongside creators such as Iris Van Herpen and Yiqing Yin. In 2013, my pieces were exhibited in galleries and museums, and in 2014 my Out of World collection was shown in Lyon to support the Rêves association and hospitalized children. In 2016, I founded my brand of embroidered brass jewelry, inspired by the cultures and symbols encountered throughout my travels.

My universe has always drawn from great civilizations, anthropology, cinema, imaginary worlds, myths, fantasy and science fiction. But it was by traveling around the world that photography and video became my natural language: the camera imposed itself as an extension of my gaze, and the people, cultures and gestures I met as emissaries of a world that already existed within me.

Miru no Ki, today, is the place where all of this converges: the memory of a childhood name, the depth of a gaze that seeks to understand, the subtle energy that connects the visible and the invisible.