Somewhere in the distance between the feeling body and the thinking mind is a tangible truth that emerges as sensation. Rotting Fig, Empty Stomach (2023) presents works which are defined by the restless pursuit of this ambivalent truth.

This body of work took root as an inquiry into the nature of uncertainty. Here, I investigate the sensation of uncertainty in a material embrace of the spectral forces of the past and future on the present. These paintings are enacted as a body-oriented search for meaning. With them, I aim to address questions about the limitations, potential, and agency of the feminine body. Decisions about colour, composition, gesture, and form are embodied and intuitive. At play is an interweaving of material strategies: the confusion of a logical foreground and background, repeated interruptions through biomorphic shapes masked out in tape, the development of gradient zones of atmosphere, and layered relationships between mark making and chroma.

Uncertainty, perhaps, surfaces when the body and the mind are at odds with one another. In the whirling and infinite complexities of chaos in painting, sensation itself remains unfixed. Rather than attempting to deconstruct sensation—to know, indulge, or deny it—I claim the agency to allow feeling to exist as a simple truth of the body expressed in painting.