Mathilde Gomas

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Inspiration

A subjective collection of gems: breathtaking performances, surprising ideas, inspiring quotes &
brilliant colleagues that might catch your attention aswell.

"But when the breath is suspended, we leave time behind and enter an ineffable bliss, where the aesthetic experience transcends all reason and our very being is silenced for an instant. In fact, to immerse oneself in a work of art is to surrender oneself to a journey (...)."

'Le souffle coupé', Iris Tinguely (2023)

Edouard Vuillard, around 1930.
'Bouquet de soucis sur la cheminée'
Pastel sur papier beige

"Dimmi, dimmi se mai fu fatta cosa alcuna."

"Tell me, tell me, was anything ever completed?"

Leonardo da Vinci in his notebooks

MIND YOUR MIND

A wall in Berlin

"Sooner die, than change my mind."

Clément Marot, L’Adolescence Clémentine, 1538.

Odilon Redon, 'Tête d'Orphée'
Between 1840 & 1916, oil on canvas

Inspiration for the sculpted head of the Judith Kraft viol

Invitation, by Andert Tysma
Made by Mirthe Mosterman nsc

Liam Byrne plays 5 examples of Lyra Viol repertoire

"Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
James Baldwin, As Much Truth As One Can Bear, 1962

Giovanna Baviera sings "Doulce Memoire"

Another Mallory

“Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.”

Edith Wharton

Luciana Elizondo & Quito Gato play a transcription of 'Manhã de Carnaval' (Luiz Bonfá)

"Keep in mind that the pull-bows are like the ones you love dearly and who are slipping away in the dark... Suddenly, without any explanation, we have lost sight of them and we have tears in our eyes."

In the movie 'Tous les matins du monde', Alain Corneau (1991)

Barbara sings ‘Je ne sais pas dire’

by Hanna Schiesser & Maeva Rubli

"I have sometimes thought that a woman’s nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes."

Edith Wharton, The Fullness of Life, 1893