“As an artist – and formalist – my main interest lies in how different media mean. And because I work in a number of media, I’m also aware of certain overlaps between them, and of the potential to exploit uncharted meanings by mixing and matching grammars in unusual ways (sound painting, for example). In a sense, I’m searching for the ultimate form to embody my own personal language: highly abstract, usually contrapuntal in texture, combining elements of light, sound and text; ‘double-blind’ experiments, improvisation, automatic handwriting. In the final analysis, the hardest thing for me has always been to accept what’s down on the page. So, if my art is about anything, it is first and foremost about the necessity of itself, a phenomenon of being, always in motion, always yearning for stillness. – Method. Theory. These are only secondary in importance. Knowledge combined with inspiration leads to greater depths of experience, and these little ‘movements of the soul’ compel me in ways I don’t always understand. But in the process of making art, I am also making reality, leaving a trail of new meaning in my wake.” Gilles Goyette