Context of the study: Clarifying the state of hybridityExhale is a practice-driven research project that uses painting as its core but also encompasses within it a constellation of practices that employ digital transcription and hybridization as strategies for transforming media. Hybridity refers to the in-between space of overlap and collaboration that arises from the convergence of disparate mediums. This project manifests at the intersection of historical 2D media (painting, weaving, and photography) and electronic interfaces (computer imaging and generation, digital video, static and moving digital projection). The continuous interconnection between these material and virtual fields produces interconnected media forms that display hybridity and heterogeneous diversity. The state of hybridity is characterized by its mixed inheritance, its differential status, and position outside established categories. Hybridity is an additive process, not a subtractive one. The process of hybridization denotes a position of crossing, variation and medial exchange in the formation of new features. Hybridity has been described in the following terms. Hybridity inhabits the territory of the foreign (Papastergiadis, 2000:168) and the “estranged” (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 of “otherness”, “beyond” (Bhabha, 1994), “inclusive” (Meredith, 1998:5) and “in between” (Bhabha in Bennett, 1998:37-47 ). It represents a liminal position of disjunction, discordance, dislocation and transformation. Hybridity works...... in the middle of the paper...... disruption of the work through cutting, 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 view my practice as a body of work from which redefined formal and spatio-temporal relationships emerge with each transformation. The total artwork manifests as a continually restructured arrangement of multiple, fused visual regimes within an autonomous yet evolving body of production. In my visual practice I use the terms “work of art” and “project” interchangeably. Productive output exists as a place of infinite potential for the actualization of myriad hybrid presences. Deleuze indicates that actualization is the state of convergence in which the material form expresses itself through its “incarnation in a body”. (Deleuze, 2004: 127).