Prismatic Path by Brooke Borcherding

Brooke Borcherding's *Prismatic Path* employs oil paint to construct a composition organized around refractive light and chromatic progression. The work demonstrates careful attention to how color transitions across the canvas surface, suggesting movement through space via shifts in hue and value. The title's reference to prismatic effects—the dispersal of light into spectral components—aligns with the painting's formal investigation of color relationships and optical phenomena. Through layered application of paint, Borcherding creates a visual pathway that guides spatial reading, establishing dialogue between abstraction and landscape suggestion. The work's material presence, inherent to oil's handling and surface quality, reinforces these investigations into color and light as primary compositional forces.