"Like a musician able to effortlessly improvise after years of playing repeated scales, McPhee enters this improvisational state of discognition in order to mine and combine the structural forms of different visual vocabularies, from geological and medical diagrams, to genres of cinematic display, to the conjugation of glyph-based languages."

James MacDevitt, "Pattern Discognition", in Christina McPhee: A Commonplace Book (Punctum 2017).  Excerpt at this page.