Here and Now came from a simple question asked by someone close to me: “What are you dreaming of?” At the time, I didn’t have an answer. After considering it for a quite a while longer than I perhaps needed to, I realised there was nothing more I wanted in that moment.

The composition may feel familiar; it closely mirrors Passing of the Thaumaturgist. Where the Thaumaturgist spoke of endurance, this speaks of arrival. I've lifted virtually all of the iconography directly from Dayak culture, referencing coming of age and wisdom. Here, they are an expression of pride—of stepping fully into oneself.

When the question was asked, I felt an unexpected sense of contentment. The answer wasn’t a distant ambition or imagined future. Although, the irony that the answer comes a full year after the question was posed is not lost on me. It is and was simply Here and Now.