"I can remember reacting poorly to something my mother enjoyed: getting lost. She would deliberately drive an alternate and vaguely considered route to our destination while I fantasized about how a twelve year old could subdue her mother and grab the steering wheel. My mother's defense was, 'you find things when you get lost.' What nonsense, I thought, sulking it out. I was a Point A. to Point B. personality forced to roam neighborhoods and bear witness to my mother's exclamatory remarks over oval windows, round driveways or the polished lettering on a mailbox. 'Would you look at that!' she would be positively beatific, different than she normally was at home. I thought she was nuts. Decades would pass before I realized just how transformative getting lost could be and how close my mother was to being her real self on those journeys. For years, I had relied too much upon the GPS of the 'familiar' in my own work and until I lost ME in those cul-de-sacs, my creative vocabulary lacked strength. Ultimately, I learned that the language of mystery and uncertainty can produce much more interesting results because our identity starts to emerge through the infinitesimal choices of finding our way. 'You find things when you get lost.' Yup, you do."

--Sandra Filippucci | www.sandrafilippucci.com

"Every artist has a way of defining their expression; mine is like a dance to music. I don't start with a goal in mind. I go with the flow, letting the piece I'm working on guide me in an artistic process. Like dancing to music, there is no end in mind with little concern for a particular result. Therefore my work becomes a very organic, physical and intuitive process. The very idea of not working for a preconceived notion. Pure discovery as I move on. I am a multimedia artist working with materials such as oil bars, encaustic, pastels, acrylic, photography and digital media."

-Victoria Sutherland | www.victoriasutherland.com