Like many people of my generation, I have struggled to find a balance between the old world and the new. During my first career as a lawyer in Geneva, I felt an emptiness that prompted me to take up pottery. I made my first bowl using the coil technique and realized that I wanted to change direction. So I left my job at a prestigious law firm in Geneva to study art history in Paris. Back in Switzerland, I opened a contemporary art gallery specialising in emerging artists. Fascinated by contemporary curation, I went on to study curatorial studies at the Zürich School of Art. The gallery has given me the opportunity to take part in international art fairs such as Liste (Basel), Miart (Milan), art-o-rama (Marseille), artissima (Turin) and Nada (Miami), and to organise exhibitions in Paris, Miami, Zurich and Geneva. Despite my interest in the field, I had a burn-out that forced me to rethink my choices and my pace.

It was at this point that I started taking classes at the Ming Shan temple in Bullet, the first Taoist centre in Europe, with Fabrice Jordan, who was my doctor when I was a teenager. Discovering my BaZi astrological chart helped me to understand my gifts and my limits. Through Taoist spirituality and stays in the forest, I recovered without medical help. I’ve also understood that my connection with the earth (ceramics) was already inscribed in my stars, and that I could use it to find balance and increase my intuition. Taoist tools were created thousands of years ago to harmonise life, and are now more than ever useful in our disconnected world.