The places we work and live in can take on many identities. Depending on the circumstances, one or more elements may form the “reality” of a place. We move in awareness toward one element, say to one where the light dominates, or architecture or practical demand, and this becomes the space we occupy at that given moment. As Bishop George Berkeley put it centuries ago: “Nothing exists but as we perceive it.”

Away from these spaces, the mind makes a region of them unshared by anyone else, built in the way of daydreams. If the space is a multilevel building, memory of it may present itself as a cross section in which nonliteral aspects so insistent earlier are again brought to the fore. This memory of an experience of adjacent spaces turns visible in the mind, forming a basis for expression. These painting work to bring the look and atmosphere of these cross sections to the canvas.