This painting was made at a time when things felt unsettled across the the UK, the US, and Hong Kong. In each of them, existing systems of power and order felt strained, contested, or uncertain.

Rather than illustrating those events directly, the painting holds their atmosphere. Two dense forms sit side by side, carrying a sense of weight, pressure, and uneasy proximity, while the space above them feels volatile, as if something is building, shifting, or beginning to break apart. Across the surface, more controlled passages meet looser, more unstable ones, so that structure and disruption remain in constant tension.

The work does not try to resolve that tension. Instead, it reflects a moment in which order and chaos no longer appear as opposites, but as intertwined conditions. What emerges is a sense of instability not only in political life, but in the frameworks through which identity, belonging, and place are understood.