For more than twenty years, I have focused my attention on a few square kilometers of wooded area at the foot of Mont Mégantic near La Patrie, a village in southeastern Québec, Canada. I walk through this site, season after season, looking for signs of change; from the growth of vegetation to the traces left by animal activity.

Leaving aside prior research or documentation, my approach primarily focuses on careful observation. This intuitive practice has gradually led me to redefine my relationship to nature. Over time, an intimate bond has developed between me and this territory. The changes I observe in these places align with my own and are thus transposed into my work. Given the reoccurrence of this land in my practice, I am continuously challenged with renewing my gaze so as to remain open to what I encounter. Discoveries lead to others; new paths emerge as I continue my explorations. I become, in a way, the witness of the land and the guardian of the traces that I capture photographically.

“While he uses the landscape as an overarching theme, there is, in the subtleties of Rajotte’s work, an intimate and meditative dimension of the territory. It exists in the hollows of the surfaces and materials; whose representation goes far beyond the visible. We are no longer faced with the objective description of a landscape. Rather, we encounter its suggestive potential where mystery, strangeness, and discovery are articulated. This singular approach is most akin to that of the explorer. He depicts a perceptive experience that explores the finality in our own observations of things.”

– Mona Hakim, Art Historian.