• "The Painter's Vision"

    This 20-minute film explores how representational paintings
    communicate conscious experience. As a viewer, your vision
    mirrors the painters' vision in a very profound way.

  • "William Oberst: Enigmatic Realist"

    An essay by the poet and artist Sarah Sutro that appeared
    in the Winter 2016 issue of American Arts Quarterly.

  • “Representational Art and Consciousness”

    A published paper based on a 2015 talk I gave at The
    Representational Art Conference in Ventura, CA. How paintings
    communicate conscious experience to viewers.

  • "Visual Subjectivity and Consciousness"

    A paper delivered at The Science of Consciousness 2017 conference
    in La Jolla, California, on June 7, 2017. I argue that investigating
    the visual experience of painters leads to a fresh understanding of
    the subjectivity and phenomenality of consciousness itself.

  • “What the Painted Figure Says About the Artist”

    How do viewers of figure paintings separate knowledge
    of the artist from knowledge of the sitter? They reach artists
    through transitions between depictions and brush strokes--
    the dynamic communication of consciousness itself.