Images of Iberville Parish: Place Embodied in Art
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Adrian Callais

Adrian "Jet" Callais
 Architect and Painter
Plaquemine, La.


The text on this page is the transcript of an oral interview. The interview has been edited and transcribed by the interviewer.
A Family Tradition of Art (Page 7 of 8)
Painting
Iberville Landscape
Jet Callais

Why I painted something is because it had a particular feel when riding by. Painting helped to preserve a certain feeling that I wanted to capture forever. It could be a certain cloud, or a certain way a field looked that particular day or the way I thought it should have looked.

Painting
Detail
Jet Callais

Louisiana in the southern part next to river and almost all the southern south central part is a lot of sugarcane and cattle fields and it has a huge canopy, has lot of sky.

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