The essays extend the research of the painting practice through writing.
Each text develops a different question arising from the work, contributing one part of a broader enquiry into what happens when painting follows the temporal rhythms of cultivation. Individual paintings are neither interpreted nor explained.
Together, the essays trace the development of the research as it unfolds over time.
Can a Painting Return?
This essay explores how repeated encounters with the same cultivated plant might gradually transform the painter's perception. Returning becomes a method of inquiry in which memory, seasonal change and accumulated experience reshape what can be seen.
Painting as Cultivation
By understanding painting through the logic of cultivation, this essay proposes that images emerge from the careful cultivation of material relationships instead of the execution of predetermined forms.
What Remains Between Paintings?
What connects one painting to the next is more than repeated subject matter. Across a long-term series, completed works become the conditions from which future paintings emerge, carrying forward material decisions, perceptual shifts and accumulated experience.