INTRODUCTION BY ROSALBA TORRES GUERRERO | dancer & choreographer | 2022* "He was right to name his film production company 'Means at Hand'. Pure Racasse! This is a testament to a spirit that will not let itself be dismasted, neither by pitfalls or unforeseen storms, nor by anything that would attempt to hinder his ingenious multi-starred system D, so that the thread of animated and filmed creation remains taut. A skilled all-terrain inventor, by vocation and in all circumstances, because restrictions and limitations, fortunately for him, always rhyme with solutions and inventions, despite often impecunious or, at best, modest production conditions. A craftsman and painter of digital images, he adapts and embraces each technological era in a joyful accumulation of tools filling a palette of demanding expressions, but, without barriers or taboos, works as much in excess and superabundance as in classy sobriety. There are few creative companions also fiercely attached to treading, hand in hand and step by step, the uncertain furrow of artistic research and the conception of a show to create a world of meaning and sensitivity in osmosis. For he shapes the image until it becomes living matter, making it a body equal to mine, which dances with it. The border becomes illusory and the disorder real. Since the alloy of animation and live performance comes from an uncertain forge where dimensions of flesh and blood and digital must merge, Lucas achieves this marriage by preaching the false to obtain the true, by making the trompe-l'oeil vibrate, but never the trompe-l'âme, while applying his motto: straight or crooked! And... all together! Essential for setting an ambush for emotion. From deep black in a stark void or in the jungle of wild colors, to make the world scream, to bring out beauty, brutal sensuality, to shimmer silhouettes, vibrate grain, and shine the evanescent. To think, to reflect, but to dream while creating the possible. Lucas, eagle eye and sanguine with a big heart." *Excerpt from the book 'Every day is picture day - selection 1989-2021'