Trace and Spill examines painting as a porous system — a site of exchange between image, object, and environment. Two unstretched canvases hang back-to-back within a metal frame, their surfaces extending downward as pigment, moisture, and residue accumulate. A chain threaded through the fabric acts as both constraint and conduit, its reflective tape intermittently catching light.

The work resists closure, unfolding as a field in flux rather than a fixed composition. Industrial and organic materials coexist in tension, generating a threshold condition that holds both separation and contact.

Material gestures emerge through direct encounter. Pigment seeps and settles, leaving traces of time and touch. The canvas becomes a membrane — a site where matter, image, and process remain in continual negotiation. In proximity, the viewer’s own movement and reflection fold into the work’s shifting surface, extending its porous logic into the surrounding space.