Acrylic painting and ultra-chrome inks on canvas, size (each): 80 x 80 cm / 31.5 x 31.5 in.

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I began with a photograph of two bodies. I kept looking at them. Then I painted over them. Then I did it again. And again. Nine times. I thought I was looking for something in the image. I don't know what. The more I looked, the less certain I became about what I was looking at.

I cut the photograph into lines. I covered parts of the faces. I put colour over the black and white. Then I looked again and wanted to do something else to it. There was a point when it stopped feeling like a decision.

I kept returning to the same image as though the next one might tell me what the last one hadn't. It didn't.

I wanted to get closer. Then I began to wonder what closer meant. Touching? Knowing? Wanting? Possessing? I don't always know the difference.

Nine times I tried to cross the distance between two bodies. Nine times I made another distance. I don't know. It is what I kept doing.