This piece is based on a painting I drew up in Beijing, where I had travelled to paint a mural. Towards the end of the trip I lost my phone and that resulted in other difficulties and I became quite homesick. This feeling of things unravelling was what I expressed in this work.
The cubes falling and then reassembling represent in a broader context, many of the challenges we can face in life, that there is time for both rising and falling. Things coming apart and then back together again.
The question of what is home is also another one the piece asks, as the truth is home is within us, and since that trip I have learnt better how to be at peace wherever I am.
While I was making this wor...