The environment, the space, the place of making, their creation. Them and her. The studio. The study. Wherever you go, when you are an artist, a maker, a creator, it is with you, it’s around you. The study. They’re study. You are it. Looking at it and it’s looking back at you. You hope. They are studying each other. The tech boys and the painter. They have a regard for one another. Both are taking it all in. The view and the viewer and the viewing. A study in something. Something coming out, rendered, born onto a surface. Made art by following a plan, schedule, map. The work and the working out of it. The working on it. The artistry. The practice, discipline. Crossing barriers. She is letting them flow through into supposed differences, distinctions. A dynamic balance. A measured approach. Doing what’s required, and knowing when it’s done right. Understanding balance. Understanding the economy. And when to go and get some air. To allow for background processing. The non-doing aspect of the doing, the creation. The creative process. Let the magic happen. Let the image come alive, as if it isn’t you that’s doing it. To let it be as if it’s moving. And be moved by it, the feeling of it. Meaningfully for you. Confound the notion that there only is just one, single surface, flat. Meaning, depth, dimensionality, push and pull, come alive in the looking, the phenomenology of your perception. Horizon lines shifting in accordance to the focus view. If you let it draw you into it, then there is a place for you in it. She renders as they do, but according to what draws her to them to their scene. She renders them into her own interest mystery and exploration. Her own study, fancy. Under her own management, demands, which are distinctly different from theirs, one imagines. She has her own tech. Confounding the mechanical abstractions of her practice. Her spirit, movement of desire, expressed in and through and by way of her discipline, expression. She’s including it, the view of it, her process, with the figure of her subject. A transparency of it and beyond it. Do you see her? Do you see her artistry is there, breathing, moving, posing, and expressing? Where is the center? The horizon’s line? The horizon is where you put it. With your interest, your desire. It is shifting. We are shifting with it. Vectographic. We are the special spectacles that render it. She is. Soft eyes see it sooner. Michael Boyce 2022
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