"Reafsnyder's streaks and splatters of paint leave maps of the unknown behind that, if we could follow them, suggest they might lead us to the places humans have sought for millennia, a path towards self-transcendence. Telling of the flow states that Reafsnyder's paintings seem to record is the common acknowledgment that one achieves such a state by intrinsic motivation as opposed to society's external rewards," writes Hugh Leeman.