Les lois de Roy

In this painting, Ellie Hedden opens a curtain and looks at a scene. The curtain is not really colored, nor really lit. It's a curtain like an image of a curtain. She looks, in her memories, at a film scene. She looks through herself. It is an image, a projection of what the mental action of looking at a memory, of projecting oneself into a story, of looking inside a mental creation could be. Like imagining watching, seeing oneself watching a memory, the memory of a film scene, a film scene that becomes the memory. The memory of a memory.

The scene is important because it contains in its essence but also because it does not show. Again, I think it's the result of a painting that escaped, that decided on its own.