A sea of pink stretches from edge to edge of Just Started, its lack of any identifiable depth of field lending the picture an ambiguous spatiality that is at once alluring and disconcerting. This uncanny presence evokes early works from the artist’s Flame series (2005-2009), in which repeating fire motifs fill the entire picture plane and assert an abstract modality in the absence of a fixed focal point. Much like the rosebuds in Just Started, the indefinite expansion of these flames enfolds the viewer in a hypnotic idyll that blurs the boundary between image and observer.

—text excerpts, Andrew St. Louis, 2021