Thomas Zipp's diptych *R.E. (bubble)* brings together two distinct material worlds in an uneasy dialogue. The left panel employs graphite and pastel on paper, their delicate, powdery marks housed within a frame chosen by the artist, while the right panel shifts into a denser, more confrontational register with acrylic, oil, and metal pins embedded into canvas. Together, the two parts explore the tension between fragility and aggression, the ephemeral and the fixed.