For over a decade Lucas Arruda artistic practice has revolved around an ongoing series of untitled and mostly small-scale paintings that can be loosely perceived as seascapes, monochromes, and, to a slightly lesser extent, the threshold of dense rainforest. His compositions tend toward the margins of the day and when things lose their edges: dawn, twilight, or night. When viewed in sequence, it is as if we are witnessing the passing of the hours in a suspended, indefinable space. Arruda’s obstinate pursuit to grasp the ever-changing interplay of light, shadow, land, and water in uninhabited environments reveals a career-long negotiation with his medium. Though he experiments with different formats, everything he does unfolds from and reports back to painting.