Scherman 's staple material is wax. Like oil it is almost sacramental, certainly liturgical. Candles, a gentle, flexible and changing light for the darkest chapels, for the most remote and opaque corners of the soul... "Look for the brightest light and the darkest shadow", enjoined Manet Among contemporary painters, Scherman is no doubt one of the closest to the creator of Olympia (their common passion for flowers, their search for the darkest shadow and the brightest light..).

The luminescence of wax, the timelessness of this luminous substance that flows, coats, incorporates, fills, protects but also slips through, insinuates itself infiltrates, hollows and breaks down and divides colours and humans, separates the living and the dead, good and evil good from itself evil from itself Unguent wax and vomited wax: yellowish wax, bluish wax and sanious wax.