Béatrice Elso

Drawing is like breathing...

it's vital.

Breath in deeply to draw inspiration from my emotions,

beyond words,

somewhere on the criss-cross paths

in the far depths of my memory… of my entrails

I rummage through this entanglement

of prejudices and ideas, matured or aborted,

inherited from I know not whom… received

I know not whence...

Breath out deeply to spit this bag of bones

on to paper.

Pell-mell I draw my figures with black ink and

throw them into a dream world that is both

ferocious and tender.

Then I leave it to the spectator to find her own story.