Artist Statement

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I begin a work without knowing what will emerge. There is no predetermined image, theme, or message. I enter into the process through colour, line, texture, and movement, allowing the work to unfold.

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I allow.
I let become.
I let emerge.

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From intricate networks of lines and pointillist structures of acrylic, figures, beings, and scenes gradually reveal themselves. I bring forward what I perceive, giving form to what is becoming visible.

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For me, creating is a space of perception and recognition. Like a birth, something enters the visible world whose origin precedes the moment of its appearance.

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I do not seek.
I am found.

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At times, words accompany the image — a single word, a message, or a poem. Image and word become different forms of knowing, different ways of perceiving what seeks to reveal itself.

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As the work becomes visible, my own recognition does not remain contained within it. It encounters the gaze of another.

What I perceive within the work need not be what another person sees.

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For me, this is where the freedom of art resides:

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I offer a glimpse.
What opens within it
may become an experience of your own.

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Bettina Dubois

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