Michael Manning's diptych combines digital processes with traditional painting, layering acrylic over digitally generated compositions to create richly textured, visually complex works. *Breakdown* and *Undertow* reflect Manning's signature practice of blending internet-age imagery with painterly gesture, resulting in surfaces that feel simultaneously screen-based and tactile. Together, the two works explore themes of disruption and flux, channeling the restless energy of digital culture through a distinctly physical medium.