The physical act of evaporation offers a neat summary of both the phasing and phrasing between these intrinsic, philosophical states as liquid turns to vapour. It is an act that also issues numerous parallels with the act and arc of painting given that both name sets of visual, physical and conceptual strategies whereby form and edge dissolve and pictorial or substantive presence slips into absence because of the rencounter between liquid, media and environment. When proposed together, the work of Isaac Andrews, Eline Boerma, Bunny Hennessey and Billy Myles-Berkouwer functions as a curatorial connective tissue between a determination for figurative fidelity and an abandonment into abstract dissolution.