This image suggests the counterpart in human biology of the architectonic grandeur that galvanises Lessard’s reflections on the interaction in her mind between architectural form and individual and family history.

The cave like shape constituted by the curves of the hips as they frame the prominent vaginal lips take the mind back to evocations of relationships between caves, as early dwelling places of the human race, from which we emerged to construct our own shelters, and the vagina as a biological cave, from where we emerge to begin the journey of this life, as well as with correlations between these images and the earth as cave of absorption, where the body enters into death, and, to look at it optimistically, perhaps leaving the spirit to ascend to other spheres or even to return to the world through the creative depths of the vagina.

In the cave of the womb we are nurtured, through the cave of the space between the legs are we conceived, and through that same uterine darkness, charged with energies, do we enter the world.

Watch over us,
you of the double caves!