I am a swiss artist who moved to Brazil in 2004 after discovering the magnificience of the Atlantic Rain Forest (or what's left of it) and the wonderful effect of surfing in Bahia. With 2 Brasilian artists, I co-founded an NGO called YONIC (please visit our website www.yonic.org) and as we are all artists, our NGO is nothing typical... We deal with social, cultural, sports and health issues as much as ecological ones. Why? because ecology isn't only about our environment, it's about who we are, what we stand for, what we think, how we think, what we do and how we do it. That's why we like to think of ourselves as ecosophers, taking ecology to the personnal and social level, as much as to the environmental one. I work with the people I live and live with the people I work, as an artist my personnal and professional life is all mixed up, for the good and the bad, but it is definitly a life experience!