Montreal artists Patrick Howlett and Surabhi Ghosh visited each other’s studios several times over the years and found shared curiosities and motivations that span painting and sculpture as well as the materials and processes employed in their respective studios. These ongoing conversations are now informing new works and inspiring a collaborative exchange for this exhibition. Patterns and architecture recur as formal references as the artists explore the accumulation of material and form within the two-dimensional picture plane and three-dimensional inhabited spaces. Bodies, food, clothing, built environments, and socio-spatial contexts are seen as nesting vessels, as interiors that contain while being contained. They are bounded yet permeable forms that accrue lived experiences, hiding and exposing glimpses of the ongoing passage of time and continual movement through space. Fluctuating between decorative ornament and foundational structure, patterns appear, disappear, and reappear in partial views, cut fragments, and leaky layers.