I became an artist by accident. There was no art background in my family. When I came to France, I was 4 years old, and I didn’t speak the language. I started drawing very early on, and it became a refuge for me and a way to communicate with others. I used to copy a lot of the cartoons that aired on [the French kids' TV show] Club Dorothée, and that helped me score some points with my schoolmates.
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