Caresser la lune afin qu'elle sourit à l'aube de nos Vies (2021) Painting by Coco Sicart

Coco Sicart created this work and named it "Caressing the moon so that it smiles on us at the dawn of our lives" taking inspiration from this heavy eternal societal phenomenon of old age which concerns and will concern each of us at daily... This is why the Artist Coco deliberately chose to paint a cheerful, colorful, positive environment to illustrate this theme of old age which will concern us all at the dawn of our lives to counteract this dark and morbid side of the loss of autonomy... Coco Sicart wanted to stage the Corcovado of Rio in Brazil to illustrate this sensitive and worrying theme. The Christ the Redeemer of Rio is indeed a powerful unifying symbol, which moreover, is the work of the French sculptor Paul Landowsky (1875-1961) who created this 38 meter high monument in 1931. Coco Sicart, stimulated by the breathtaking beauty of this ultra-renowned magical landscape of Corcovado in Rio, of this emblematic place that is the Cristo Redentor overlooking the city at an altitude of 710 meters, wanted through this work to be remembered distant memories and impressions of travel to share with you... "Caressing the Moon so that it smiles on us at the dawn of our lives" reminds us that this sword of Damocles is located above all our heads when each of us will return to old age... For as long as we can remember, the memories of our parents have slowly tiptoed away, without warning, and buried themselves deep in their hearts. memory, sweeping away all the fiery moments of life which have built their lives to better incubate our lives...We have put our steps in their paths of life to learn and understand the arrangement of our destinies, to take flight and build our Lives elsewhere... Our elders are solid rocks on which we have anchored our lives. Through their faults, we have hardened, corrected, straightened, surpassed.... Through their qualities we have strengthened ourselves, embellished, surpassed... These leaders in our lives are strong links to be carefully kept in the hollow of our hearts whatever it costs us, to never forget that they are the fortified ramparts of our lives.... When we are born, we are all condemned to the same fate, whether we are rich or poor, each of us will experience the inevitable pangs of old age, of good or bad aging, without any distinction.... Old age very and too often rhymes with great moments of solitude where each of us must question ourselves, when one of our elders finds himself on a daily basis in hellish, unbearable, humiliating, exhausting and sometimes insurmountable situations... Old age is a hypersensitive phenomenon on which our souls should pour out more in order to strengthen our bonds of heart.. Altruism, self-sacrifice, courage, surpassing oneself, tenacity, are the key words for successful daily support for our elders at the dawn of their lives. Being a life coach for an elder is a value that is built on a daily basis through sharing....so that their lives are a little more peaceful, secure, beautified and that our lives are consolidated and strengthened....Helping them seniors means overcoming your own fears to put an end to their daily fears and anxieties... Helping your neighbor is above all loving your neighbor.... The most extraordinary act of generosity is to highlight a life in its decline so that it is maintained in a certain glory and force of existence.... Life will survive us all in all its splendor.... The health pandemic which is raging on our planet is there to remind us to how fragile our lives are and hang by a thread, due to the fault of men, so let us remember deep within ourselves that old age must always rhyme with dignity. It is the responsibility of all of us...As Albert Einstein said so well: "The world is dangerous to live in, not so much because of those who do evil, but because of those who watch and let it happen." .. All our actions must be directed in a more united and simply more human direction so that our lives experience a real growth of light and abundance.... Old age threatens us all and exposes us to the arbitrary nature of decisions that could deport us, relegate us to the confines of our concerns, in oh so questionable forms of inhospitality and abandonment, in times of isolation and perdition... Most often, our rejections, our indignities, contribute to ousting from our history the people who contributed to it. Old age implies increased vulnerability which increases the feeling of dependence, loss of autonomy, self-esteem, social exclusion, incomprehension... In this distance dug by old age, ethics re-establishes a essential presence through caregivers and relatives who are there to confirm their non-abandonment, and their duty to resist these social indignities. Daily situations of mutual vulnerability (as much for caregivers and loved ones as for the elderly) call for respect. Because old age implies constant kindness and real support and unfortunately multiple constraints influence the daily relationship that must be preserved at all costs, to fulfill our duty to assume all these heavy responsibilities...The life of caregivers fall very quickly into a nightmarish and unbearable daily life, unfortunately...The caregiver must have a high dose of courage and must constantly take on all these burdens and put things into perspective....All this involves a difficult and difficult daily life. exhausting....Until we experience it, we will never be able to understand it....The well-being of the elderly depends on our good will to do well and renounce indifference. The commitment of caregivers forges a social bond with the elderly and is above all the essential expression of humanity... Obviously, we can understand that we do not wish to confront it or that we favor the dodge to simplify life, to have no constraints of this order so as not to disturb our semblances of life or disrupt our tidy, well-established daily routine... All these choices are understandable and very human... Yes, we are all so imperfect.... What we must remember above all is when we consider integrating an elderly person into our social life, we give them recognition and dignity. We all pursue an ephemeral path of life but sometimes it only takes little things in everyday life for this path to take on a taste of eternity... As Albert Einstein said: "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the mind rational is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." or again: "Affirmation of the right to life for all humans, the life of the individual has meaning only in the service of the beautification and ennoblement of the existence of all living beings, the life is sacred, that is to say it is the supreme value on which all evaluations depend. Albert Einstein was a pacifist scientific man, he was a conscience-raiser, definitely humanist but above all even today, he remains a citizen of the world. This is why the Artist integrated it into his work. And we could add this sentence from Robert Badinter: "Life is always stronger than death"..... We are all beings in the making, but at the end of all this journey, at the dawn of our lives , we all seek to rejoin this essential of the first moments of our lives, which propelled us to become what we have become... This is why the Artist has highlighted this umbilical cord which connects us all to this little being fragile that we have been which constitutes the key to all of our lives... Awakening the child within you to live your daydreams and feel the magic of life....As Einstein said: "The most beautiful thing that we can experience is the mysterious side of Life. Everything is determined by forces over which we exercise no control. This applies to the insect, as much as to the star. Human beings, vegetables, cosmic dust, we all dance to the sound of mysterious music, played from a distance by an invisible flutist." This magic of life was particularly well perceived by Gandhi who also said: "Life is a mystery that must be lived and not a problem to be solved".... In conclusion, through this work, Coco Sicart puts in the foreground Life even if we all know that it is very closely linked to death. All the difficulty in life lies in not being afraid of the momentum of life... Life is this momentum, this movement without beginning, without end, made of freedom and energy which includes beauty and glory....Life is an incredible energy, a quality of intense passion...Life allows us through our freedom to think, to destroy all barriers and to see things as they are. We must simply always learn to take something from observation, you have to look with your eyes but also with your mind and your heart to no longer fall prey to conflicts between concept and action.... As Jean said Jaurès: "Courage is understanding one's own life.... Courage is loving life and looking at death with a calm gaze.... Courage is going to the ideal and to understand the real"
Publication of the work on November 12, 2021.