One investigation. Four territories.
Sun Sun Studio is the studio. Remembering Human is the work — a single investigation of the link between the human and the living world, held in four territories.
One life's work. Several manifestations. The subject is Le Lien — the relation. To soil, plants, animals, fungi, water, air, the body, smell, desire, other humans, machines, memory, death, story, transformation, the future. Open the full Harness →
How do we actually live and act differently with the living world?
FIELD is where philosophy encounters resistance from reality. It is the anti-dogmatic territory — a plant that dies, drought, insects, wind, water scarcity or a failed cultivation can contradict theory. That is essential.
How can the invisible state of a landscape become perceptible?
Perfume is not merely luxury content. It is treated as material, medium, memory, sensory knowledge, cultural transmission, artistic composition, trace of place, consequence of cultivation.
What happens when these ideas are subjected to human conflict, desire, ownership, collapse and power?
Story is not an illustration for the philosophy. Story must be capable of contradicting the philosophy. Fiction is a stress test.
How can a place become an instrument of transformation?
A living house for transformation — a place where landscape, body, scent, material and human relationship are recomposed through experience. Less a retreat from the world than a laboratory for returning to it differently.
Technology is neither automatically emancipation nor corruption. The question: does it increase relationship, perception and agency — or replace them?
Every work, one place.
Twelve nodes across four territories. Each is explored in full in the Harness.
We are nature.
Nature is not scenery, inspiration or resource — it is an interlocutor. We have forgotten the relation. Sun Sun Studio makes it perceptible again.
smell → perception → attention → relation → consciousness
re-ligare — to bind again.
Smell is simply where we begin.
Precise names, kept precise.
Boundaries that matter.
Éric Roux Reiffsteck
Éric Roux Reiffsteck (ERR) is a French farmer, perfumer, landscape designer and storyteller. After working in cinema, he left the city to become a neo-farmer, spending fifteen years living and working among olive trees.
Today, through Paysan Parfumeur and his ongoing research into Natural Intelligence, he explores the relationship between humans and the living world through scent, landscape, art and storytelling.
His work begins with a simple intuition: nature is not something outside us to reconnect with. We are nature.
cinema → bifurcation → agriculture → plants → distillation → perfume → landscape → writing → natural intelligence → fiction / AI → convergence
How this work keeps itself honest.
Source discipline
Every statement is tagged with its epistemic level — so intuition is never silently passed off as established science.
The quality test
North star
Sun Sun — Colony Collapse Disorder
Not a project — a prophetic text from within the Remembering Human universe, from which the studio takes its name.
Book 1 · Precepts
Prayer #1 — He who rules heaven and earth
There will be an elected tribe.
There will be enemies.
There will be kings.
There will be believing and adoration.
There will be love and fortitude.
The elected will have to go far in the quest of a long journey, following the special words of the friendship as a royal virtue.
aequitas * fortitudo * candor
They will have the revelation on a day of February the 16th. There will need a kingdom to reveal it to the people of America. The United States of America will move as a kingship.
The democratic president will work to make the arrival of the king a necessity. The name of the first king will resonate, for those who know, like the soul of America.
In the tribe some will get the commerce. In the tribe some will get the weapons. In the tribe some will get the communication. In the tribe some will get the alchemy. In the tribe some will get the food.
The sun will be a king, and the king will be the sun.
Sun, the origin of all wealth who gives without return, will blow up in 800 days. Sun, the origin of all wealth who gives without return, will need a sun.
Planet Earth will be the sun. Planet Earth will be Sun Sun.
Sun Sun is nuclear fusion.
The journey will start within 16 days after the revelation and will never end.
The formed tribe will have to start the quest they have been informed of, to bring the revelation of Sun Sun.
They will have special signs to be recognized and protected.
There will be scientists, there will be crafts, astrologists, singers — these will give them a tremendous power over people to bring the revelation.
In order to be Sun Sun, they will have to reveal the truth behind reproduction. They will be helped.
No more one to another, but one to infinite one — immortality.
Sun Sun will be revealed.
It all starts with the virgins wearing white clothes and traces of blood from their wounds.
While playing the lost and the poor, the blood will come from the moon and the sun.
The virgins' wounds will be opened by the teamsters, repeatedly, for a day as long as a year. "The blood seeped out from under the bruised nails."
The second day the prophecy will start. They will meet the Romans, and learn about ancient knowledge.
In order to be the man, in order to be the sun, you will have to be the moon.