For me, being an artist is about curiosity and experimentation and alchemy - mixing paint, chalk, photographic film, wax, and bits of natural materials- and then letting the materials work their magic with a minimum of interference. 

Illusion is not my goal, but rather an honest revealing of the inherent beauty of the materials themselves. 

Questions about the transient nature of life and consciousness, separation and unification, effort and observation - these are the underpinnings of my art-making.

                                                                                        -Phyllis Lasche