"The ink paintings in Alana LaPoint’s “Stranger Folk” exhibit were created using a technical novelty: a syringe for irrigating the sockets left by tooth extraction. (She describes the discovery of that tool in her artist’s statement.) In LaPoint’s 20-by-24-inch ink-and-watercolor-on-paper piece “Please Don’t Go,” an abstracted face is described in a delicate fugue of drawn (and maybe injected) black lines. The face is as beautiful as any found in the works of Paul Klee. LaPoint’s subtle gradations of light earth tones, pink and blue illuminate her shapes and move the viewer’s eye slowly around her picture plane." -Marc Awodey 
http://www.7dvt.com/2008four-star-exhibit