Ami Durussel was born in September of 1938 in Lausanne, Switzerland. He attended
technical school in Yverdon-les-Bains, earned his apprenticeship degree,
and travelled throughout Switzerland for a company based in Bern as a technician in central
telephones. Later on, he worked as a maintenance technician for a large hospital
in Lausanne.
Photographer by hobby, passionate of human sciences, Ami Was able to discover
many artistes who successfully exposed their works in the hallways of the hospital.
Since his retirement in 2000, and finally able to realize his dream to reproduce, via direct
impression on paper, the traces left on the bark of trees by various insects, beetles & termites.
Immensely grateful to share his works with others, Ami can justifiably use the text of the
famous French painter-glassmaker Alfred Manessier (1911-1993), “I don’! believe the
universe of a painter-engraver, constitutes a world a part which can define the isolation of the
natural world, the poetic world, and the spiritual world.
Between all these forms of human experience, there is something that circulates and assures
us of a profound unity. It is this experience, this equivalent, which motivates in me a desire to
bring it to life.”