While this work evolves from Dickerson’s personal references, experiences and memories unknown to the viewer, it is the hope that this exhibition will prove a catalyst for individuals to wander through their own mysteries of uncertainty, and contemplation. These portals broach an elusive mystery: reflecting what has been discovered, what has been lost and what history is yet to be written. Brian wants viewers to mine their own experiences, allowing for quiet reflection amid the chaos and uncertainty of the surrounding world. Work is undone and remade through scraping, sanding, painting over, like memories that have been reformed, polished, and retold from the distance of time. The knotted angles and landscapes of thick paint over vistas of tactile and structural elements which evolved from Dickerson’s earliest memories of the Helderberg mountain region in upstate New York, and the rich countryside surrounding the Hudson Valley.