Filler on board, pine panel It’s natural to think of matter as a container of language. After all, we use matter to carry our messages – we speak, write, and broadcast through physical means. But I prefer to see it the other way around: language as a container for matter. The concepts and categories we use shape how we perceive reality. We experience only what we can hold in our minds. Language, as a container, is invisible. It gives form to the boundless, fluid material world without calling attention to itself. In my mind, the cylinders in the image are the buckets holding the filler I use in my work. While still in the bucket, the material represents possibility; once the work is complete, possibility becomes actuality. Only one of countless potential forms can be realized. The buckets remain as leftovers, discarded like the possibilities that never came to be — words never spoken, stories never told. The Entangled Reality series consists of works made with a device that allows me to draw multiple lines at once. It creates what might be described as a polyoptic image.