"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

In Le Petit Prinxe, Delta van Melle shows a visual ode to childhood's naive, unfiltered simpleness. Using reverse glass painting, a technique where marks are made blindly on the back of the surface, each piece emerges as a surprise: a conversation between artist and inner child, where memories materialize in delicate lines and simple bright forms.

These works are acts of preservation: fragile feelings (wonder, blunt honesty, untamed curiosity) encased behind glass. Like Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince protecting his rose, van Melle guards vanishing states of being, not through nostalgia, but through urgent, tactile poetry.

Behind each work lies a proposition: that what is essential is not only invisible to the eye, but easily forgotten. They ask: How do we hold what slips away? When did we stop seeing stars as miracles?