Both once ours and yet offered to all, the face is not content to be the sum of perceived - and imposed - elements: a forehead, a nose, a mouth, an eye, two... It is “this exceptional presentation of self by self” (Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity). The face thus manifests itself fully and voluntarily to others, which is why the Officine Universelle Buly dwells on it at length. This particular attention to reality gives rise to care for the figurative, because the face is the source of emotions. Witness to its own story, actor of its present moment, the face has the gift of telling the feeling of the being and the abyss of the appearance... it is indeed the true mirror of the soul.