CAUSTIC ON CLOTH

Sodium hypochlorite drawn onto black cloth. Not a stretched canvas — a loose sheet of plain-weave cotton that was folded and stored, so the creases still run across it in bands. Bleach behaves on cloth the way it behaves on paper. It lifts the dye out of the ground, so every mark arrives pale and stays pale. What changes is the surface. Paper holds a continuous line; a weave breaks it. Each stroke here picks up the grid of the threads, and where the bleach ran it travelled along the warp instead of soaking in. One large cloth carries a whole composition: a head, a spire rising from the lower edge, a city along the bottom, small framed signs floating above it. A second is looser — loops, drips, one long vertical run. They sit beside the caustic drawings on paper as the same method on a different ground.