"These two words conjure up images from myth and religion, places in our minds or calibrations of good and evil, polarities and extremes. As an artist I have my own “heaven and hell” when I am making art. However, this does not always fall into the traditional concept and definition of these two words. I may be engrossed in a wonderful and ecstatic explosion of color, shape and line. This “heaven”, this moment when I am totally lost to my art making can look like “hell” in the final culmination. However, my “hell” comes upon me when I run into a rigid wall and cannot resolve the art making problem I am working on to my satisfaction. I guess that this means when I am “lost” to the creative process then I am in heaven. So then it would follow that being “found” is hell. That doesn’t really work. Sometimes polarities are inadequate to describe experience. Two extremes and seeming opposites can exist at the same time. I am expressing this in my work. One painting is a visual expression of heaven, one is hell and one is-both."
-Jeannine Hunter Lazzaro