Until not long ago, our view of the cosmos hinged on the indivisibility of the atom. Overnight, this certainty crumbled to account for this atom’s now inexhaustible changeability. Winters’ canvases, made up in the manner of the petri dish and the planetary system, attest to both, turning time’s axis into a measure of distance. 

Oblate cross sections take shape as the painter slices through matter. His images dwell in extreme microscopy, their primary colours artefacts of extreme artifice. They capture life on chromosomal scale on one surface and in interference patterns on the next. Winters’ project is not, therefore, mere description. A creationist science, if such a thing were possible, is born out of oil.