"Heaven adventure conjures an upward motion. A horizontal series of dark brown bars
frame expanses of blue, like the rungs of a ladder, or the windows of a
highrise building – towering up beyond the edge of the canvas, stretching ever
taller. Perhaps we’re seeing the sky, or a reflection of it against transparent
glass panes. Wavering someplace between natural landscape and urban
architecture, the work offers a vague orientation – further underlined by a
subtle yet incongruous strip that cuts between the image’s top and bottom
sections like a horizon line. But even within the bands of metallic dark brown
that constitute the painting’s bottom third, light blue shines through in small
flashes between fissures, unsettling a prescribed relationship between earth
and sky. Here, the rows of brushstrokes are fluid, gently folding ribbons that
glimmer like satin and flow like waves – undulating between flatness and depth.
There’s an airiness to them, as though they never fully touch down on the
surface, but only lightly graze it. With a translucent iridescence like crepe
paper, it seems implausible that such a structure can remain intact."

Text by Julianne Cordray