In the series Repeat Offender, Warren Rosser has created a world of simultaneity, memory and experience where all is in a state of flux. Interested in the ontological journey, Rosser's large-scale canvases operate as a painted environment where the positioning of the self—literally in the space but also historically, culturally and within ones own memory—is not predetermined, but comprised of a series of uncertain negotiations within a time continuum. Long intrigued by the elliptical/ovoid form, Rosser has imbued it with newfound agency where its presence in Repeat Offender has evolved and opened up to suggest the potential of what lies in-between. The place in-between is the location for discovery, where transferences between the connected and disconnected occur.

Emerging from dislocated spaces and at interpolated junctures, the ovoid, pushes color and composition to reveal the multiplicity of natural and unnatural relationships. The paintings hang in the gallery space like a musical composition. Rosser has choreographed a path with no concrete place of origin or final destination, only a series of journeys. While seemingly filmic, his arrangements create a sense of timelessness. The narrative unfolds not in the movement from one piece to the next, but in the random revisiting of the painted surfaces; to and from— a prototype guiding genetic determinations, a child’s galactic imaginations, the atomic age retroactive or the evolution of the egg, embryo and icon—and back again. Interested in the quality of encounter, Rosser asks the visitor to position him or herself in an animated space full of associations.