PIXILATED Long before pixels were a thing, “pixilated” (c.1848) was a word used to describe a person who appeared tipsy, addled, or perhaps led by pixies. I was looking for the proper spelling of the word that describes individual pixels visible in a bitmap, which is p-i-x-e-l-a-t-e-d. The larger works in this show are about motion and time. The broad dashes of color at the edges of the paintings are meant to represent pixelation. They occur in the space of what would be the near future. However, given my new understanding of this word, thinking of time in this way (putting one foot in front of the other, first this and then that) creates a dynamic of expectation. Being led by pixies, on the other hand, may be a better way to think of time. In fact it could explain how time really works. The smaller paintings are of raindrops on the passenger side window of a moving car. They differ from the pixelated paintings in that they’re not so much about this and then that, they’re more about this and that occurring concurrently. The raindrops-on-window model is closer to my understanding of the block universe theory. Einstein wrote of it in a letter to a friend: "...the distinction made between past, present and future is nothing more than a persistent, stubborn illusion.’ His theory proposes a universe where everything that has happened, is happening, or ever will happen everywhere occurs simultaneously. I like the raindrops-on-window model, even though my mind is usually caught up in the first-this-and-then-that model. That being said, I cannot discount the very real possibility that I am now, and may have always been, led by pixies.