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“The intrigue of what lies beyond human
sense perception ignites my creative process.
“My paintings begin long before I walk into my studio. Upon entering, I see scrawled on the wall French police jargon ‘Traces Suspectes en Surface’ which serves as a reminder that ‘things are not as they seem.’ As a teenager, tran- scendentalism and metaphysics captured my imagination; philosophies that remain nestled in my subconscious. Through the deliberative yet experimental handling of materials my ‘meta- physical dreamscapes’ slowly emerge. Curiosity and intuition are my companions in that liminal space wherein the invisible becomes visible. The gestation period is joyful, playful, meditative,
as my paintings assume a life of their own, the delicate, intimate, pas de deux ensues, where I simultaneously need to be in command and out of control. My repertoire of embedded images, investigations, musings, and mental meander- ings are what enable me to create work that encapsulates places I’ve been, places I’ve never been, places that I long to go to.”
Jeanne LaCasse