Running is a heightened sensory experience. The five senses we are taught to have are  expanded to infinite perceptive processes through this accelerated movement. This  amplified vision and phenomenological experience is the genesis of my artistic process.  Through oil painting I recreate the heightened experience of running and how it connects me to the environment.  

This organism to environment relationship, or enactivism, highlights perception and how we make sense of the world, the situated experience that we are all connected to – humans, nonhumans, and habitat.

This relationship to the environment, the agency an organism exerts on its surroundings has social and societal implications that extend from the cognitive science of enactivism. In a gendered context, both sexes do not have the same rights to agency under the current culture across the globe. Agency in respect to when and where our bodies can be, look, and exist is challenged by pre-existing norms passed through centuries of evolving yet strangely the same cultural ideals and preferences. By running long distance in a female body over wild terrain, outside in the elements, I subvert the domestic role of women and exercise the freedom I know is my right.

Colour is pronounced loudly in my work. My palette is constantly swerving, transposing  and shape shifting, echoing my internal to external journeys between light and dark, subjectivity and objectivity, emotion and stoicism, perception and outcome. Running is art. Rich with content, malleable in its service, running is a vehicle for what one needs in any given moment. Running offers space, contemplation, escape, connection, creativity, solitude, peace, gratitude and so much more.