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", both inwardly and outwardly. The works open a gradually revealing field for optical intensities, luminous intervals, individual discoveries, and opportunities for slowness. My approach to art making is informed by painting's older history as a devotional practice of imbuing the surface with intention and also Minimalism's consideration of the perceptual body while experiencing an artwork. It is important for me to create a space of exchange between the material object of the painting or drawing and the viewer. When the works are viewed from different distances, they move between familiar structures from interior spaces, reticent abstract form, intense optical networks, and an intimate sense of materiality, creating visual fields that seek specific resonance while resisting closure. The paintings are created through numerous layers and erasures of oil painting, sanding, and staining on a plaster-like ground. As I work on each piece over several months, the absorption of meditative time, illumination, and change become inscribed in the lifespan of the work. The particular nature of the fresco like surface suggests a historic gravity as religious and epic subjects are replaced with an elevation of the minor experiences that are the subject of each piece. The mixed media works on paper draw on similar themes as the paintings, expanding on fields before or after the illuminated unfoldings within the paintings. Reflecting a similar process as the paintings, they are painted, marked, sanded, erased, built upon, carved into, and sometimes include rubbing impressions of the paintings or other surfaces. These works offer an opportunity to trace elements that echo the meditative stages, passages of time,  or chance actions that get absorbed into the paintings.