EUROPA

A constellation of moments accrues between the creation of the painting and the final exhibition. These “events,” and the space between the events, lose their hierarchy. Each moment is flattened and democratized without regard for preciousness, mundanity or sentiment. The viewer and the artist are made to fixate on the margins of a scene, creating a strangeness and affection that results from over-concentrating on a detail or particularity at length—the experience of the painting becomes something both banal and sacred.