Doring-Baez brings a new dimension to Brassaï's black-and-white images by depicting them in a subtly colored palette…Her work is a brilliant feat of channeling. She doesn’t appropriate so much as mediate another artist’s imagery, bringing to it her own unconscious, with its Proustian layers of memories. “It is so much more fascinating to work from someone else’s mind. You’re figuring out who was Brassaï, and who are these people. It gives you a double layer. It is like figuring out a big puzzle,” she says. “And I can make up the colors. There is a moment when I am thinking, ‘Oh my God, what is the color of the night sky in Paris?’

– Excerpt from an interview with Pheobe Hoban

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