‘Departure Gate 2’ is a larger feature piece on stretched canvas with curved corners and a bespoke birch float-frame to match. The concept was to create a shape/window that could be both mid-century and futuristic/space. It blends inspiration from a Japanese aesthetic, mid-century, and a psychedelic other-wordly space landscape like that can be seen from a Star Trek ship window. The layers are soft and numerous and are built up to resemble the Japanese notion of Mono no Aware; transience of nature ie. rock forms eroded away by waterways.