The contemplative nature of Gerety’s work reflects both her practice of Eastern philosophy and her immersion in the history of modern and contemporary painting. Based on photographs, her landscapes fuse the exploration of inner-self with the gestural energy of action painting. 
   Inspired by Eastern philosophies, Meghan’s work plays on the notion of time, whereas any manual or intellectual work that brings a person out of his/her state of passivity is part of the process of Enlightenment. Fusing the spiritual with the physical, they depict a world which is real but not realistic. The scale of the composition of the larger works is more in the line of Andy Warhol or Christopher Wool's flowers or Robert Motherwell's abstractions. Through the cropping and enlarging, the image is pushed towards abstraction while still maintaining it's direct reference to nature. Their reductive black and white imagery mimics contemporary techniques such as xerox and silkscreen as well as the gestural qualities of abstract expressionism. But their actual technique is labor intensive and obsessive, it is physically demanding and calls to mind the spiritual practices in which through repetition and physical endurance one can achieve a higher state of consciousness.