The subjects of Travis Boyer’s textile-based paintings reside in crucial moments of collision, self-definition, or reconciliation. An interface between the sensual and spiritual, Boyer’s silk velvet works respond to our approach and movement thanks to subtle changes in texture, depth, and color that result in a delightful diversity of surfaces within their materiality. For instance, the velvet has been pressed into a chrome sheen in some places yet deepened into dark fields of dye in others. Boyer’s paintings demand our participation—asking us to constantly reconsider their presence due to texture, angle, light, and air—and reward the viewer who engages with them in real life.