Katherine Drake Chial Painting www.KatherineDrakeChial.com These paintings are intended to be primarily phenomenal or retinal. Color and light are very important aspects of the paintings, as well as the suggestion of spatial/perceptual indeterminacy. The paintings are meant to reveal evidence of the "hand" as well as the intimation of other processes. They incorporate a particular type of light and expansiveness which refers, not only to Modernist depictions of the Sublime, but which also seeks to question the source of the Sublime as a natural landscape versus a cultural one.