Sundog

Oil on paper, 5” x 8.5”, 2023

Sundog was made for a recurring weekly assignment in my 2023 landscape painting class, in which students were tasked with exploring campus and beyond, and with painting our findings. This painting is part of an ongoing investigation into the applications of psychogeographic theory in my visual arts practice. I am interested in learning what it takes to truly know a place, and I've always turned to psychogeographic practices (wandering, moving through a space with the intent of becoming lost) to do so, even before I had the language to describe it. My landscape paintings are often born of these wandering sessions; I feel that looking, without the purpose of finding any one specific answer, often yields the most striking results.