7 April 2025
In my studio looking at a recently resolved painting that I'm calling Urge to perform. Started from seeing a plastic bag on the street in Camberwell as an inviting void. I like how Yena described the piece's core contrast as “filling in versus filling out”—that feels true. Think it is also about solidity coexisting with thinness and transparency and warm against cool; the little asteroid shape is darting into the cold dark space from the angle that the sun fell on the bag. Like Lying in bed, there's something about concealment and enclosure too, the expansive view of the optically small. And its composition feels like it wiggles within the container of the canvas without making too much of show at its edges, which is nice. Kind of looks like a uvula too. Maybe that's a better title: Uvula.