Roy's laws

In this painting, Ellie Hedden opens a curtain and looks at a scene. The curtain is not really colored, not really lit. It's a curtain as in a picture of a curtain. She is looking, in her memories, at a scene from a film. She's looking through herself. It's 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 might be. Like imagining oneself looking, seeing oneself looking at 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 doesn't show. Once again, I think it's the result of a painting that has escaped, that has decided on its own.