Time Slot

One of Suggs’ earliest memories is of closing her eyes and perceiving bursts of color. Beneath her eyelids, bright blue dots, circles, and shifting patterns appeared, producing a vivid visual field even in darkness.

Although she no longer experiences these phenomena, known as phosphenes, her work remains informed by a sustained pursuit of the chromatic and perceptual conditions encountered within this subliminal space. In this sense, Suggs treats vision not as a passive optical event but as a temporally unfolding perceptual process. To engage her fields of color and form is to enter a duration of looking that allows reflection, pause, and perceptual awareness to emerge.

Like the luminous dots perceived beneath closed eyelids, color in Suggs’ work is not fixed but contingent upon perception. She offers multiple readings of a single chromatic field. Suggs paints both sides of the paper, producing not only saturated surface color but also a diffused chromatic radiance that emanates beyond the plane. This strategy complicates the boundary between image and object, transforming the works into low-relief sculptural forms.

As the eye lingers, color is perceived not only on the paper’s surface but within the surrounding shadows, which become subtly infused with reflected hues. Through cutting, layering, and repetition, visual order gives way to openness, and surface yields to depth. Meaning emerges through duration rather than instant legibility, rewarding sustained attention and allowing space, structure, and time to remain active elements of the work.