In Donaty’s maximalist painting series, Pareidolia, she paints larger-than-life human figures imposed upon a playground full of tiny fantastical creatures. A narrative that speaks to the paradoxes of freedom and equality in an out-of-scale, absurd, surreal world.

Donaty employs a unique painting process, placing a pristine canvas on the floor while simultaneously creating a painting on the wall. Excess paint drips, splatters, and spills from the composition on the wall and lands on the floor canvas, forming a ground swirling in colorful marks for the next painting.  Eventually, the floor canvas transitions to the wall, restarting the process. Through examining the random marks, Donaty lets the marks determine the narrative, and tiny creatures emerge, akin to finding shapes in clouds like a rabbit chasing a bear.  In the end, as they always do, a  human figure attempts to assert dominance over the world of creatures born of chance from the floor canvas.