Hilary Pecis lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. Interior still-life and landscape views are recurring motifs in Pecis’ works. From her daily life and surroundings, Pecis extracts her painted views with a touch of candid subjectivity and the sensible. Though still-life and landscape are two of the most conventional compositions in art history, Pecis adeptly manages the ties of her works with the historicity of painting while highlighting her own keen observations of the fluid and symbiotic relationship between privacy and the public in the modern world. The prototypes for Pecis' interiors mainly come from her own house or the residences of her friends. Sitting rooms, dining tables, books, sofas, wallflowers, pets, florals — these objects harboring individual emotions and belonging construct, through flattened patterns, a “portrait” where people are absent. Through the absence of men and the looseness of states between objects, Pecis invites her viewers into the eternity present in fleeting moments. At the same time, Pecis’ works provide an alternative sort of “capturing” of LA views encountered on walks, runs, and errands — not a representation of spectacle through the lens of a mobile phone but the reconstruction of her own eyes. Her subjects are very much ordinary, even mundane, but she draws out sensuality through the crevices in between, and in doing so, opens up a door not only to views but to minds.