Quote:
"At the time I photographed it [La raison avant la passion] (1967), I was in a panic; an ecological, spiritual panic about this country. [...] I was thinking about The Group of Seven and that certain artistic records have to be made at certain times. Just look what has happened to many of the places they sketched. There are old shoes and hamburger buns in those lakes. That country inspired some of the greatest landscapes painted in this world. I photographed the whole length of southern Canada to preserve it in my own way, with my own vision of it. I felt very strongly—very passionately. Yet, the total result of the finished film is a nostalgic, sad feeling about the landscape."
-- Joyce Wieland

Source:
Magidson, Debbie, and Judy Wright. "Interviews with Canadian artists: Debbie Magidson and Judy Wright interview Joyce Wieland." Interview with Joyce Wieland. Canadian Forum, May-June 1974. (p. 63)