In her paintings and installations, Tia Factor generates personalized maps of what is unseen and intuited in the places she and others visit. Combining the elements of exterior realities with instantaneous interior impressions, the work depicts a more complete experience of place.
Multiple and contradictory views of one place will appear, a rural landscape, a run-down mini-golf course, or an industrial-era bridge are combined with uncodfied or ineffable information such as diminishing coils of color bands or tie-dye patterns shooting from an exploding star.
The paintings help to reveal how our internal landscape is shaped by the external landscape we are surrounded by.