"Ladocha is able to kick the envelope of stalled representations and come immediately to something that realistically addresses flux, change, exploration, vitality -- something closer to the state of the esthetically beautiful that Kant characterized as ‘finality without end'."

On Ladocha’s large diptych from The New Alchemy series:

"It is rugged and raw and of the earth. It’s got a real strength, and it’s not fragile. You can touch it; it has texture. It’s going to live forever."