The work comes out of the gesture/data series. Here, the "support surface" has been swapped out with what at first appears to be a traditional painting surface (is it silk?), but upon closer looking shows itself to be somehow different--both rougher in feeling (like it has been used for some other purpose--with crumple marks--or also other aspects that resemble how painting surfaces start to warp/loosen over time--I'm thinking of Warhol and Twombly canvases, how the support surfaces are often extremely rough and loose rather than taut in their current states); the support surface also somehow seems to be changing the waves of light (and other waves) around it. The material is actually a metallic polyester fabric coated with pure Nickel coating that is used to block out EMF and radiation waves (such as cellphone, wifi, and other data transmitting waves). These fabrics are used to generate spaces where these waves are shielded from interacting with the body, or to protect against wave-based types of scanning and hacking, or simply to cut-out all signals and "going dark." The gestures/painting are performed up against the threshold of blocking these waves (disconnecting, disengaging, shielding, protecting, going dark)--in the gesture/data work, the gestures/painting were performed up against the threshold of the screen (connectedness, spectacle, brain hacking, feedback, recording).