Chord printed on Canson Platinè fiber Rag 310g Each successive painting took on

Each successive painting took on its own identity completely apart from the source materials

informed by her memories of personal encounters with nature

Working not from a precise recollection of forms

Each work in the series began its evolution as a scanned image of a Buddhist thangka—a spiritual painting of a Buddhist deity—which was then blurred and stretched until all that remained was a distilled image of color and form

Chord printed on Canson Platinè fiber Rag 310g Each successive painting took onUchiyama works with watercolor on Arches paper. She often develops as many as eight compositions at one time, moving on to the next while the paint dries on the last. To begin each work, she waits to see a hue on the blank surface. Each additional hue builds off of that original vision, building towards a linear horizontal pattern. Each layer possesses unique physical and material properties: some are opaque; others are translucent; some are