Painting in motion: a meditation on reverie, time, and the architecture of thought.
When I was six years old, my teacher told me to stop daydreaming—that I was sitting with my mouth wide open and a fly might fly in. I’ve never forgotten that moment, but I never stopped drifting into the kind of reverie she wanted me to abandon.
This 7-minute video, first presented at Art Basel Miami — is an invitation back into that place. There is no narration, no voice telling you what to see. Only moving paintings, shifting one into another, like portals opening to a world of dreams, memory, and imagination.
Science tells us that imagination isn’t just escape—it’s vital. We need it to remember, to hope, to dream. As neuroscientist Daniela Schiller says: “Memory is a form of time travel to the past. Imagination can be a form of travel not bound to any time.”
For me, these moving images are a way of traveling without leaving the studio. They are portals into that same childlike state of wonder I was told to outgrow—and which I now depend on to make art. My hope is that viewers can step through them too.