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“The French countryside presents just such a joyful contradiction. Tracing its
exuberant order and sensuous natural rhythms, I discovered in it the legendary
French love of living. In the same way we better understand our own language
by learning another, understand our own culture by contrasting it with
another, by looking at our world from a ‘disoriented’
linear orientation we arrive at its essence. Every vantage point was a fresh
occasion. Sunflower fields and wild wheat fell into an unruly order only
to unravel in ribbons of passionate color. Oil pastel, pen and ink, watercolor
and printmaking have been my vocabulary-each medium contributing its own
quality of line to capture the extraordinary prism of the landscape.”
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