Thomas Kusturin’s work locates pressure points at which the intelligibility of the image breaks down. Coming from a place of gestural abstraction, the low-relief qualities of bubble wrap assist Kusturin to gutter the ‘raining’ down of paint. The intentional play on words reference a generation of abstract painters who expressed their practice as something pure, naturally masculine and religiously substantive. The materials and processes he uses function oppositely - to suspend and dissipate a Western metaphysical source of mark making.