Alyse Ronayne's drawings use mimicry as a way to approach abstraction, a visually sparse approach to the medium the artist adopted during the pandemic. The artist’s process treats thick paper as a journal page that collects content from the objects the artist views that day, frequently through the screen of a smartphone. Ronanyne’s compositions reference surrealist paintings, ancient mosaic, contemporary sculpture, Moroccan rugs, the way light reflects on glass, graphic design and tattoo flourishes—each abstracted by the artist’s eye and hands and evolving into new forms on the page.