The magic of Ena Swansea’s paintings resides in her use of rich materials to create resounding psychological environments. Working in oil paint over a graphite ground, Swansea allows the unpredictable qualities of her media to clash with a physical tension. In World Wide Web, her silver-black surface has a metallic and dusty sheen, the uniquely gritty and greasy texture of the graphite both refracting and consuming light. Masked by breezy layers of oil paint, figures emerge as ghost-like contours, suspended in dream-space. World Wide Web captures a refracted sense of time and space, where frail figures inhabit a world that is treacherously emotive and unstable.