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Je crois avoir une sensibilité très théâtrale, quelque soit le sens de cette expression. Je crois être attirée par le côté sombre, lourd, des choses. Quiconque a vu un film de Fassbinder saura de quoi je parle, ou de Werner Herzog. Mon âme appartient au drame…ça, c’est certain.
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I do believe I have a very dramatic sensibility, whatever that means. But I think I really do tend to go to the dark side, the heavy side. Anybody who’s seen a Fassbinder movie will know what I’m talking about, Werner Herzog. I tend to really, really go…my soul is in drama, there’s no question about that. I think the biggest influence on me as a painter is film, has been film. I have read a lot of biographies, autobiographies of film-makers. I see everything that comes out. I am the number one renter from Blockbuster, in the 8th Street store. But I also…a lot of my work has been based on silent film. I have a silent film collection, which is my husband’s of course, but I’ve seen it too. A lot of investigation into things like film noir, the camera angles, the lighting. So that would be my biggest influence. I think my second-biggest influence is probably the Baroque period of painting. People like Velasquez, Goya, Gruenwald, I don’t know if they’re all Baroque, I can’t remember. Highly influenced by early German Expressionist painting, and then the Germans who came in the eighties were a real inspiration for me.
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