Throughout my undergraduate to the most recent work is a continued interest in painting not as illustration but as an event. This new work is influenced by the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others on phenomenology, wherein ethical choice is ascribed to making visible the conditions of encounters beyond habits. These writings suggest that if we learn see with objects, bodies, and situations and their specific conditions, we’ll find ourselves in the very space in which we begin to assemble ourselves towards action.

“The departure is from capturing a moment of encounter hung on the iconography of the face to an event of a primordial experience on the threshold of perception.” (Jane McQuitty)