Morgan Stokes Painting Concerning The Past and The Future, from the series Skin, is exploring and reinterpreting the medium of painting. Morgan says of this work, “For some of my earlier works, I have substituted canvas for silk in order to draw attention to the physical makeup of painting – that is, supporting stretcher bars. For this work I continue this idea but have integrated a definingly modern material, plastic. Layering silk with plastic, I mimic the traditional technique of layering in oil painting. The oil painting component composition is reminiscent of packaging, I want the marks appear accidental and incidental.”