The ongoing collaboration with the American poet Brian Johnson—now approaching two years—has resulted in the creation of multiple artistic chains. A chain is an alternating series of poems and pictures, each link in the chain inspired by the link that precedes it. These chains can be of any length. Current chains range in length from two (one poem, one picture) to eleven (five poems, six pictures). A guiding premise of the chains is that pictures and poems have the same mode of being and communicating. Poems are immaterial. A poem materializes in its presentation, but is not bound to any form of presentation. The form chosen—sheet of paper, canvas, poster, etc.—depends only on practical considerations. A picture, too, is independent of any single form of presentation; it may be conceived as an immaterial creation. Digital techniques make this idea of picture-making possible. The pictures and poems of a chain begin as data files, which materialize for a public presentation. Thus, the traditional method of painting (from idea and layout to a painted canvas) is replaced in this case with a digital color file transferred to a canvas. A unique copy no longer exists. The resulting canvasses are reproducible “images” rather than unique “paintings.”