Josette Rispal: “Chiffonnettes”

Josette Rispal, L’ordre des nuages, 1992, hot drawn glass, 7.4” x 10.6” x 1.5”

Josette Rispal: The Celestial Shaman

Rispal is an elegant sorceress who delves inside the massive material realm, able to take any and all matter imaginable – glass, cloth, clay, resin, metal, wood and so on, as well as recycling mundane found objects – and perform a redemptive act of transmutation to render these materials into artworks that not only emit divine beauty and light but also attain a higher vibrational frequency. The sacred quality of the life force that Rispal infuses in her art makes it medicinal; this is a healing art and Rispal, a celestial Shaman.

By Deborah Zafman, Ph.D.

Exhibition catalog published by Skira Flammarion, 2010 for Galerie Christian Berst Art Brut Paris