When asked about when and how his history with art began, Louisa Lama-Aknin it immediately falls back into a sweet nostalgia. Because this story is that of her whole life. She was the daughter of workers, she grew up in Homecourt and she knew the mines that she remembers perfectly. She has always been an artist. She all starts in elementary school, when she takes part in a drawing competition organized by the WHO, and she wins it. “Despite everything, I didn’t know what it meant to be an artist. I just knew that I loved her enormously because there has always been art in my family. And I remember going in La Buissonnière to do manual work. It was finally at age 17 that he started his career, but in a completely different field. “I had the opportunity to go to work in London, in the civil service. Then I went to Reunion and Paris “….
