Drawing on a series Wilmer Wilson IV made between 2009 and 2010, Bedspread Iterations is an early inquiry into Wilson’s work in expanding the lexical possibilities of the materials of everyday life. Having reimagined household objects such as staples, paper bags, and stamps as materials in other bodies of work, the artist starts from a similar place in these gelatin silver prints: his bed. The exhibition comprises 14 works created by cutting into a series of 35mm negatives of his bedspread in disarray. The fabric’s figurative presence undergoes an esoteric translation through darkroom techniques and physical manipulations of the material mediating the image. The autonomy of the original photographic image has been punctured; what emerges is somewhere in between the territories of photograph and collage, documentary and abstraction. These fragments that result from the physical cuts are in dialectical relation to the folds of the bedspread, producing glyph- and language-like qualities which emerge through the fog of paper negative exposure. There is an implied distance through the atmospheric perspective created by the haze around the cut forms, moving into a more ethereal realm. Together these works present a liminal vocabulary springing from an image pervasive to daily life and interior space.