The “Interview with a Compeer” Series

▶️ In these videos or podcasts, I share my expertise in Storytelling, Art Direction, Narrative design, Foresight or Esotericism and I demonstrate how these, apparently, unlinked disciplines can actually be used to infuse Creativity and Analysis in many -if not all- professional activities.

Whether through Conferences or Interviews, I always reply to my interlocutor(s) with the same motto which guided all my life : Everything is Stories.

The Context

🎙️ François Lamé is a Marketing Consultant, expert in storytelling and narrative, cognitive, and behavioral strategies.

He created the podcast “Desfragmentations” where he welcomes guests who share his passion: Storytelling and how they integrate it into their personal or professional activities.

He asked me to inaugurate this podcast as his first guest:

As an Art Director, Illustrator, Author, Ludographer, Typographer, and Visual Storyteller, I use Storytelling in my work as both a goal and a means to convey Content through Form .

In Episode 1 of this Podcast, François invites me to introduce myself through the lens of Storytelling. In Episodes 2 and 3, we address two specific questions I pose to him…

The Episode

The Alchemical Vision as a Modern Creative Tool

François Lamé asks me about my background and my work. I share with him the anecdotes, motivations, and processes that led me to become a Visual Storyteller.

Through the interview, I tell him how I came to consider the ancient discipline of Alchemy as a working method that can be applied to all areas of life…

Audio Language

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⭕ This is the design I created for The Red Team Analysis Society article [🇫🇷 🇬🇧] titled:

“Uranium for the U.S. Nuclear Renaissance: Meeting Unprecedented Requirements – Part 1”

This design is the Seventh in the Uranium Series, following “Towards a U.S. Nuclear Renaissance?”.

The U.S. has planned for a Nuclear Renaissance. It aims to reach 300 GWe capacity by 2050 for nuclear energy and envisions two scenarios to reach this goal.

Developing the future American fleet of reactors implies facing formidable challenges and uncertainties. Now, the U.S. must also be able to fuel the nuclear renaissance. This means the U.S. will need first to have uranium, which demands mining it, before even thinking about processing it from conversion to fuel fabrication through enrichment.

How do American nuclear objectives translate in terms of uranium requirements? What does that imply?

Will they manage to accomplish this task which appears to be near-impossible considering the short amount of time available and the weight of the logistics, political and geopolitical implications?

The Design

Sisyphus, painted by Titian – another great Renaissance painter, now embodies the task that lies ahead for the United States of America…

The Dantesque task of the USA is in fact twofold and, therefore, the Sisyphus represented is twofold as well. In perfect mirror image -like the Mythological hero, banished to Hell– the two Sisyphi carry a heavy load: one carries the immense quantity of Uranium that the country needs to face the energy challenges of the future…

…and the other embodies the immense burden of the geopolitical responsibility of the USA regarding the drastic decisions that they will have to make to make this achievable…and thus impact the world, for better or for worse.

Will these cursed Gemini, plunged into the hell of urgency, manage to bring their burden to the top of the mountain? And thus, transform it into a roaring volcano of nuclear power?

Will the rays of the American Stripes burst forth like insolent lasers, piercing the skies of Hades? For the star-spangled nuclear symbol can be born from the Forge of rediscovered Power?…

…or will the USA -like the damned character of the legend, like these two Sisyphi– be crushed by the weight of their burdens?

Will they realize too late that their efforts will soon roll at the foot of the mountain of Time that they have just climbed, thus sealing the impossibility of an ever-renewing task? Of an ever-heavier ordeal? And of deadlines that are ever more impossible to meet?…

Will everything have to be started again and again, all the time?

Will they then realize that they have fallen into the infernal trap of lack of anticipation? Will they be locked into an exponential loop of announced failures that will soon seal their destiny for all eternity?

In this case, the eruption of the volcano will not announce the Renaissance of their Energy, but rather the Renaissance of their Sufferings within the furnace of a dark and cold Hell. There, the American Stripes of the energy lasers that they will never produce shall become the bars of their imprisoned Future.

As Sisyphus, imprisoned in the Tartarus.

Summary of the Topic

🔻 Detailed description of the U.S. Uranium Requirements, complete with graphic charts and numbers.

🔻 Focus on the actual USA policy about choosing to purchase rather than to produce uranium.

🔻 Exposing the dependence of USA on foreign companies and foreign supply for uranium.

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The Context

⭕ This is the design I created for The Red Team Analysis Society article [🇫🇷 🇬🇧] titled:

“Towards a U.S. Nuclear Renaissance?”

This design is the Sixthin the Uranium Series, following “Niger: a New Severe Threat for the Future of France’s Nuclear Energy?”.

On 30 September 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published the latest edition of the Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Advanced Nuclear.

Its aim is to contribute to accelerate advanced nuclear reactors’ commercial deployment in support of U.S. objectives in terms of nuclear energy, necessary notably to achieve its decarbonization goals.

The U.S. DOE document sets the civilian nuclear objectives the U.S. state would like to achieve, and presents arguments to convince American companies, including bankers and other financial institutions, that they should invest in nuclear energy. What is the American nuclear renaissance all about?

Why is it important knowing, in 2024, the U.S. is still the first civil nuclear power in the world? How does it fit in with the global return to nuclear power? What does it mean for the American National Interest? How does it compare with China’s surge in nuclear energy? Are the U.S. nuclear power objectives feasible?

Will a new Nuclear Divinity arise from the waters of uncertainty ?

The Design

Like Venus, the ancient goddess painted in Botticelli’s masterpiece, Nuclear Power emerges from the waters, the navel of self-centered Love shimmering through in its core… Will nuclear power be loved and cherished by the United States? Will they allow it to be born?

On the left, Zephyr, the gentle wind of Spring, dressed in the star-spangled mantle, blows the breeze of possible renewal on the young nuclear power that is shaking itself out of the waters… Is it the breath of rebirth or the one that announces the storm of inconsequence?

On the right, one of the Hours seeks to cover the fragile nuclear power with the red and white stripes of the thirteen founding states, symbolizing the monopolization of this newborn power into the foundations of the American State.

But which Hour is it? Is it Auxo, Hour of Growth? Thallo, Hour of Flowering? Or Carpo, the Hour of Fructification? Is there still time for the Nuclear Hour to arise?

The texture of the nuclear symbol is that of gold painted on the raw canvas, still iridescent from its crackling radioactivity… When this new divinity will open its eyes, what spectacle will it contemplate? What words will it pronounce? And will it be lively enough to survive its own (re)birth?

Or will its Renaissance remain only a sketch on the easel of States, too dreamy to see the Twilight of the ungrateful Gods and the carefree Men that is inevitably advancing?…

Summary of the Topic

🔻 Description of the drivers behind the American nuclear energy renaissance and objectives, mainly those related to international relations, American national security and constraints required for energy decarbonisation.

🔻 Why and how out-competing China and constraining Russia over the international chessboard is incorporated into that Renaissance.

🔻 Presenting the two scenarios of the U.S. Department of Energy… and possibly a third?

🔻 Uncertainty and Challenges linked to the stakes of that Renaissance.

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The Context

⭕ This is the design I created for The Red Team Analysis Society article [🇫🇷 🇬🇧] titled:

“Niger: a New Severe Threat for the Future of France’s Nuclear Energy?”

This design is the Fifth in the Uranium Series, following “Revisiting Uranium Supply Security”.

France has lost 47% of its potential uranium reserves.

It happened on June 19, 2024, when Niger has revoked French nuclear state company Orano’s mining permit for the Imouraren mine. It occurred at an era of renewal for nuclear energy starts globally and when France plans to add between 14 and 20 new EPRs to its current nuclear park.

What happened and what is at stake for France?

The Design

Marianne, symbol of France, is shot in plain heart. Right in the Nuclear Heart.

Through the filter of the flag of Niger, its orange disk is now a nuclear reticle that strikes down the French Republic through her breast, piercing it with the cancer of carelessness and lack of anticipation…

Soon, Delacroix’s Marianne, Liberty Leading the People, will be amputated and mutilated… and will no longer guide anyone. Its colors, once fresh and vibrant, are dulled by the loss of its energy and the weakness of its resolution, buried by the insipidness of technocratic mediocrity.

It will be little more than an ectopic museum piece, unsuitable for the energy challenge of tomorrow. One more trophy sacrificed on the altar of the arrogance of the Present and the blindness to the Future…

To harms, citizens,
Disband your battalions,
You won’t march anymore.
The immature
Gloat comes out from our bureaux…

Summary of the Topic

🔻 Detailed timeline of the unfolding of the disaster, starting with the Niger coup of July 26, 2023.

🔻 Detailed analysis of the issues for France and the consequences of the loss of the major Imouraren mine.

🔻 Recontextualization of this loss within global issues and the international race for nuclear energy by 2050.

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The Context

⭕ This is the design I created for The Red Team Analysis Society article [🇫🇷 🇬🇧] titled:

“Revisiting Uranium Supply Security”

This design is the Fourth in the Uranium Series, following “The Future of Uranium Demand – China’s Surge”.

In December 2023, twenty-two governments and the nuclear industry decided to treble nuclear energy by 2050. If they are to meet this objective, then the corresponding uranium supply must be adequate.

The article presents, first, a classical approach between the producer versus consumer countries’ vision.

Second, it exposes what may happen in terms of supply of uranium, as far as politics and geopolitics are concerned.

Third, it presents a revisited outlook for uranium reserves and resources per country, honing hypotheses for a better strategy and planning, including in terms of foreign relations, influence and future feedback impacts on domestic politics.

The Design

The deep ore, hidden in the bowels of the Earth, is uncovered and revealed. Heavy. Powerful. Rich with future promise.

It begins to chisel itself to form the army of miners who possess the same rich and raw nature of the very ore they exploit ; creating a bas-relief monument to the glory of their courage and their determination to access Nuclear fire through the sweat of their brow.

Soon, the mechanical arms of machine tools, diggers and drills, join the army of miners, digging deep into the ore to form gigantic mining chambers, Cthonian cathedrals and underground catwalks and passageways, heralding the imminent advent of the goal so sought after…

Finally, men and machines conquer the raw matter and carve out the portal which opens towards the fiery horizon of a future new world : the Promethean fire emerges beyond the branches of the nuclear logo to finally light up the world of men with its glowing power.

Summary of the Topic

🔻 Detailed comparative tables and graphs based on production capacities, needs and share of nuclear energy in electrical energy per country.

🔻 Detailed analysis of the 3 types of uranium mining companies: “Western” style, Kombinats and Juniors.

🔻 Developing a narrative and possible prospective on the issues of uranium through a new approach filter incorporating the issues and stakes of the geopolitics of the future.

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The Context

⭕ This is the design I created for The Red Team Analysis Society article [🇫🇷 🇬🇧] titled:

“The Future of Uranium Demand – China’s Surge”

This design is the Third in the Uranium Series, following “Uranium and the Renewal of Nuclear Energy”.

As the world is poised to make the effort to treble its nuclear energy capacity by 2050, there is a base case scenario for the future of nuclear energy capacities, upon which the 2023 decision to treble nuclear energy and related policies will apply.

These evolutions, country per country, reveal notably China’s surge, highlighting a direct geopolitical consequence of the multiplication of nuclear reactors on territories, as nuclear plants become essential elements in the theatres of war.

The Design

Hundreds of analyzes and reports aggregate. Meticulously. Studiously. They come together like red earth bricks to build the future of the Middle Kingdom, like a new Forbidden City, even more powerful, even more imposing.

Like the blueprint of a new empire, like the bird’s eye view flying above a new urban agglomeration, new neighborhoods are being drawn and new streets are being annotated. The global future of China’s energy empire is being built, almost silently, around its new Heart : The Nuclear Symbol.

And, all around this new Radiant and Radioactive Palace, four stars are approaching, religiously assembled. Each star is embodying 5 years of future time, totaling 20 years; which is year 2040.

Date on which China will become the world’s largest nuclear power.

The New Flag of the all-powerful Nuclear China will be then complete, ready to be unfurled above the Earth…

Summary of the Topic

🔻 Detailed tables and graphs on current nuclear energy production capacities by country.

🔻 Sourced projections of future production by country by 2040.

🔻 Projection of Uranium needs by country by 2040.

🔻 Analysis of the potential influence of China’s lead concerning security and warfare on the geopolitical level.

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The Context

⭕ This is the design I created for The Red Team Analysis Society article [🇫🇷 🇬🇧] titled:

“Uranium and the Renewal of Nuclear Energy”

This design is the Second in the Uranium Series, following “The Return of Nuclear Energy”.

The December 2023 “Declaration to Triple Nuclear Energy by 2050”, signed by 22 states, officially cemented the beginning of the renewal of nuclear energy (see also “The Return of Nuclear Energy“ Article on RTAS site). Then, on 21 March 2024, 33 governments and international agencies reasserted their commitment with the first Nuclear Energy Summit. The nuclear industry endorsed the two declarations and their objectives.

However, as outlined previously with a case study focused on the Franco-Mongolian deal (Ibid.), this new era will also come with new geopolitical challenges and tensions, as states seek to reduce the potential for insecurity linked to nuclear energy.

The Design

The raw material of Uranium ore glitters in the shadows, waiting for the Promethean action which can reveal its intrinsic power.

The mineral cracks and fractures, revealing the molten Gold liquid of primordial energy, flowing like a river of lava. A river as dangerous as it is promising for those who can understand its secrets. This stream of molten Gold is both the river Pactolus and the river Phlegethon: it is the Wealth of the Gods and the Burning of Hell altogether.

Alchemy is at work as Light is finally freed from raw matter ; the pure and unaltered symbol of Nuclear energy appears, stripped of its primitive matrix in order to be refined and used as the new emblem of a future still unsuspected.

Burning and radiant like the Philosopher’s Stone, the shining Nucleus irradiates all its power.

But everything that is powerful is dangerous… can humans be worthy enough and wise enough to understand and master its power?

Summary of the Topic

🔻 Exposing the nuclear fuel cycle and plan long-term to achieve the global goal of tripling nuclear energy by 2050.

🔻 Precise listing of the world Uranium reserves with maps and graphs.

🔻 Analysis of the process of potential increase in global uranium production.

🔻 Exposing the geopolitical stakes of the situation within the perspective of increasing Uranium world production.

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The Context

⭕ This is the design I created for The Red Team Analysis Society article [🇫🇷 🇬🇧] titled:

“The Return of Nuclear Energy”

On March 21, 2024, thirty two heads of states and governments and special envoys met in Brussels for a summit with a very high level attendance. This meeting was the first ever Nuclear Energy Summit, jointly hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Belgium.

Why is nuclear energy coming back on the agenda and why such a high level interest? What did leaders decide and which leaders? Could the renewal of interest in nuclear energy entail new geopolitical challenges?

The Design

As global warming imposes more and more constraints on the world’s societies in the 21st century, all nations find themselves faced with a dilemma: how to cope with ever-increasing energy needs while striving to reduce polluting emissions to a minimum?

How can we approach the nuclear issue on a global scale without falling into Manichaeism or caricature, on one side or the other? What will be the new challenges of nuclear power and its impacts – still unsuspected – at the political and geopolitical level? Is there something hidden that we may not see until it is too late?…

Will all the countries of the world, united by the same globalization, manage to see the advent of nuclear power -for worse or for better? The question looms on the horizon of an almost immediate future, like the nuclear symbol through which the United Nations World is now seen. Such an inescapable question generated by civilizational choices which must now be fully taken into account.

As lack of time or lack of decisions have led to the situation we are in presently, now remains almost a single vision, a single issue which will determine, sooner or later, the future of humanity for those who have been able to see it in time…

As a single symbol which might eventually represents the whole world and its only future?

Summary of the Topic

🔻 Exposing the crucial stake of choosing Nuclear Energy if we want to keep our actual way of life while reducing GHG emissions.

🔻 Explaining why States and industry have chosen to step in to trebling nuclear energy capacity by 2050.

🔻 Analysis of the First Nuclear Energy Summit.

🔻 Exploring the first analyzes concerning a geopolitics of nuclear energy.

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