Linette Dubois

    

              

                       

          

  

   

While nursing my second son shortly after he was born, I spent countless hours gazing out my bedroom window at the oak trees in the park. Now, those hours are spent in the park, surrounded by the ever-present oaks as two energetic young boys run circles around me. The presence of the oaks in my work depicts the strength that motherhood requires, while the figurative nature of their structure serves as a reminder of the fragility that exists in counterbalance to that strength.

 The oaks are a protector of wildlife, a provider of shelter and nutrients.  Similarly, my role as a mother includes not only the protection of my children, but also their environment and what they hold dear.  Their attachments, although sometimes plastic and seemingly meaningless to adults, are imbued with all of the importance the boys attach to them.  My eldest son’s pacifiers were such a comfort and security to him that he needed two in his possession to fall asleep at night.  When the time came to give them up, I ‘magically’ turned them into a toy street sweeper, since real ones had become his latest obsession. 

 These objects make their way into my work, just as they have made their way into my life: quite unexpectedly. The structures I have created house items treasured and objects collected, evoking the experiences and memories of those moments. 

   

Linette Dubois was born in Miami and has lived in Georgia since attending the University of Georgia for a BFA in drawing and painting.  She later became an emergency medical technician and spent several years caring for patients in an Atlanta emergency department.  She now resides in Savannah, trying to balance her time between oil painting in her studio and taking care of her sons, Tristan and Beck.   

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