Encasing a free-standing partition at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Canvas activates a dividing wall. The weft and warp of soft disposable cotton newborn diapers forms an undulating absorbent field where the inside is turned outside, and tiny infant animals stalk in print around the edges, creating 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 the navigating of cultural and social boundaries in a public display of transgression, protection, and care. Canvas invites audiences to question, 'to canvas', these micro-acts of impulse within contexts that compartmentalise and preserve.