The Value and Spatialization Paintings explore a productive tension between pictorial verticality and horizontality in relation to value and spatialization. The space is conceptual and synthetic in this sense, and is inspired by a passage from the writings of Modern French orientalist Henri Corbin (1903–1978), in which he describes the pictorial space of religious paintings (Gnostic, Christian and Islamic) of the Medieval period as deeply concerned with the presentation of ideas and concepts over pictorial accuracy. With an interest in these aspects of pictorial space, I am blending metaphysical ideas, ecological concerns, ideas of a cosmos versus a universe with painterly techniques that extend from the Medieval to the Modern, from the decorative, such as trompe l’oeil, to the surrealist and abstract.