Using painting, drawing and abstraction as markers of a space outside of the verbal and within the visible, my work examines slow and sensate exchanges between perception, matter, and psychology that develop in peripheral spaces over time. Searching for meaning in the minor and the overlooked, my practice works on dislocating hierarchical terms of the sublime to focus on the links between perception and emotion as they unfold in unspoken events of cognitive illumination. Each piece is developed slowly through stages of meditative procedures, abrupt change, and actions of chance, working towards creating a compressed expanse of time that echoes the intense shifts in which we "see" in a new light, both inwardly and outwardly. The works open a gradually revealing field for optical intensities, luminous intervals, individual discoveries, and opportunities for silence.


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