Description

Mirror image.
What you see is never neutral. It depends on where you stand, and what you’ve lived through to get there.
Patricia Van Lubeck grew up in a fractured household in the Netherlands, where loss lived in one room, unpredictability in another, and the safest place was invisibility.
It was a world without art, a working-class environment where a practical job was the highest ambition. And still, that life led to painting.

There is migration, across oceans but also inward.
There is solitude, both chosen and forced.
There is fantasy, used not to escape reality but to reshape it.
And there is painting, as an act of making sense.

With a calm, thoughtful voice and occasional dry humour, Patricia offers not just her story but her way of looking back.
For readers who are drawn to the quiet side of creativity, and for artists who know how long it takes to find your own line.

This book spans over 200 pages, combining personal writing with images from her visual world.

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