Encasing a free-standing partition at Auckland Art Gallery, Canvas activates a dividing wall. A weft and warp of soft disposable cotton new born diapers forms an undulating absorbent field, where the inside is turned out, and tiny baby animals printed around the edges, create a grid within a grid. Multiple units are subsumed into the whole, dissolving individuality into an expansive field–redolent of a collective humanity and the innocence of the newborn.  Hands reach out to stroke the padded folds, and pause, caught between repulsion and attraction, and navigating cultural and social boundaries in public displays of care and protection. Canvas invites audiences to question, 'to canvas', these micro-acts of impulse within contexts that compartmentalise and preserve.