Life can hold some very good surprises. In painting, as in everything, it sometimes gives you just what you expected. Two years ago, Kossi Homawoo organized an exhibition in Togo. The room he has planned needs a new coat of paint. A team will take care of it. And then the day before the exhibition, three artists defected. One of Kossi's best friends then proposes his brother to her. " He's a boy no one knows, a loner, rather reserved. He brought with him about fifty small formats. Kossi stops. The painter is there, on a ladder, and he is painting the wall.

Abstraction is a highly perilous exercise. He can reach for the sublime, such as sinking into incoherence and absurdity. " Daflag's work was such a rare moment. I remained silent and I have already bought ten of his paintings from him. In the end, only he will have sold during the exhibition. He's unique, he's a UFO. " 

His career, Kofi Amewonou (Daflag) explains it in an immense simplicity. Many painters say these words, but here they are taken literally. " I think I was already a painter in kindergarten. I don't remember exactly what I was drawing, but I know that painting was everywhere. Painting, I think it's first of all a way of seeing the world, the things that surround you.ss Obvious for him, but very little in the eyes of his relatives who see in all this a useless blur. So he begins by being a teacher and then a little later, he drops everything to return to his paintings. At this time, his owner continues to make fun of him and he works in a dry cleaning and laundry room. And occasionally he paints walls. We can legitimately think that these movements of the roller, these rechampis, these brush strokes comfort him in a way.