Study Background: Clarifying the State of HybridityExhale is a practice-oriented research project that uses painting as its core but also encompasses a constellation practices that use digital transcription and hybridization. as strategies to transform the media. Hybridity refers to the in-between space of overlap and collaboration that arises at the convergence of disparate mediums. This project manifests itself at the intersection of historical 2D media (painting, weaving and photography) and electronic interfaces (imaging and computer generation, digital video, static and moving digital projection). The ongoing interconnection between these material and virtual domains produces blended media forms that exhibit hybridity and heterogeneous diversity. The state of hybridity is characterized by its mixed heritage, its differential condition and its location outside established categories. Hybridity is an additive process, not a subtractive one. The process of hybridization denotes a position of crossing, variation and media exchange in the formation of new characteristics. Hybridity has been described in the following terms. Hybridity inhabits the territory of the foreigner (Papastergiadis, 2000: 168) and the “alienated” (Green in Bhabha, 1994). Hybridity is a condition of emergent identity, a site of collaborative action and transformation, and a space of surplus and differentiation (Bhabha, 1994). Hybridity is the state of representation identified by the terms “otherness”, “beyond” (Bhabha, 1994), “inclusionary” (Meredith, 1998: 5) and “between- two” (Bhabha in Bennett, 1998: 37-47). It represents a liminal place of disjunction, discordance, dislocation and transformation. Hybridity operates...... middle of paper ......rupture of the work by slicing, perforation and weaving. My artistic production is an evolving continuum of creative genesis. The ongoing production process highlights the revision of the work and its emerging hybrid properties. I understand my practice as a body of work from which redefined formal and spatio-temporal relationships emerge with each transformation. The total work of art manifests itself as a continually restructured arrangement of multiple and fused visual regimes within an autonomous but evolving body of production. In my visual practice, I use the terms “artwork” and “project” interchangeably. Production exists as a site with infinite potential for the actualization of a myriad of hybrid presences. Deleuze indicates that actualization is the state of convergence through which the material form is expressed through its “incarnation in a body”. (Deleuze, 2004: 127).