We face an existential crisis, and this has inspired a recent shift in style and visual storytelling for me – creating fictive landscapes focusing on the unfolding story of the human-created environmental catastrophe, throwing all life into peril. Not an obvious narrative but a sub-text of the catastrophic place we find ourselves after decades of warnings. "Firestorm" is a story of the bush fires, literal and figurative, engulfing our planet. In creating this work, I hope the viewer, like myself, reflects and considers the subtext – a reckoning of personal responsibility for climate change. Blacken trees punctuate the fury of the burning landscape, like burial poles, standing as totems of loss. In a bush fire, you hear the fire's roar, cracking, popping and snapping. It's deafening.