Isolated indeterminate recursion (after Caravaggio)

Death terrifies us all, so the promise of resurrection is one of humanity's most persistent concerns. Caravaggio painted the moment Jesus – back from the dead – settled Thomas's doubts by making him touch his fatal wound. 'Isolated indeterminate recursion (after Caravaggio)' separates the moment from the wider composition, removing the identities of the two figures depicted and leaving only hands, midriff and scraps of fabric, repeated, distorted and overlaid. It's a painting of a digital recomposition of a photograph of a painting, a mix of the mechanical and the human that recasts a 17th-century moment of clarity to reflect the secular uncertainties of the present.