What if the threads making up a painted canvas unraveled and became different forms at will? These images explore something that is so basic to the work of a painter that it could be overlooked: the fabric of the canvas. As unraveling threads and fabric fragments lift off the painting surface, they give birth to new forms and visual space. In following the path of these threads or fragments, as they recreate themselves, we are made more aware of the forms within the painted surface. At times the emerging threads and fragments pierce the painted forms, at others they create new forms, nesting within or floating amongst organic or painted structures. The canvas, once a material object fixed in place and hidden by the paint, now exists as a duality. It is both the physical support for an intangible idea made concrete through painting, and is yet another layer of intangible ideas becoming an image. The painting and the canvas are thus linked in an endless interplay of evolving forms that transmute one material into another, evoking new layers of meaning.

This interplay is reflected in the process of making the images. The artist's materials of canvas and paint as tangible objects have been transformed by their passage through the virtual space of a computer before once again emerging in tangible form as a print. Fabric fragments, paintings, and organic objects were scanned and digitally integrated to create unique surfaces. Despite this, none of the forms resembling painted surfaces in the final images exist in the source works. They were created through manipulating the source images in Photoshop using layer upon layer of color, form, ambiguity, texture and detail, to create a multiplicity of overlapped motifs with organic overtones.