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I left it the way memory leaves things: soft at the edges, luminous at the centre, impossible to hold.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AlexSandrine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45346586361900,"sku":null,"price":2000.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0617\/4736\/3884\/files\/presence-painting-alex-sandrine.png?v=1772555093"},{"product_id":"seuil","title":"Seuil","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I wanted to paint the exact moment between two states — not the light, not the dark, but the place where they touch. Everything in this painting was built toward that seam of gold. The white above was laid down first, calm and certain. The black below came later, and it was harder — dense, resistant, full of things that didn't want to be covered. The gold arrived almost last, and it became everything: the threshold neither side can cross.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AlexSandrine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45346617819180,"sku":null,"price":1900.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0617\/4736\/3884\/files\/Seuil-painting-alex-sandrine.png?v=1772555688"},{"product_id":"menhir","title":"Menhir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I've always felt drawn to things that were placed there long before us — stones that stand in fields, patient and indifferent to centuries. When I began this painting I wasn't thinking about megaliths. But the forms arrived with that kind of gravity: immovable, deliberately placed, older than explanation. The gold at their feet isn't decoration. It's what accumulates at the base of things that have stood long enough — offerings, time, the slow residue of being witnessed.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AlexSandrine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45346620964908,"sku":null,"price":1500.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0617\/4736\/3884\/files\/menhir-painting-alex-sandrine_1.png?v=1772556098"},{"product_id":"trame","title":"Trame","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I think about cities sometimes when I paint — not their surfaces, but the logic underneath. The invisible grids that decide where a wall ends and a street begins. This painting started there: with structure, with intention. But the white refused the plan. It spread where it wanted, covered what it wanted, left visible only what insisted on remaining. 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