This piece explores presence beyond physical location. It is not about where we are, but where we exist within ourselves... in memory, in thought, in emotion.

The phrase “Where are you now?” came up in a small town in Vietnam, where I spent four hours learning the local batik technique. My guide was a local woman with almost no English. I traced my paths, cosmos, and doodlings across a large cloth. After the session, another local woman approached, studied the piece for many minutes, and finally asked me, “Where are you now?”

The work reflects the fluidity of time and space. How moments and experiences intertwine, sometimes clearly, sometimes fading into the background. Layers of color and shape move across the canvas like fragments of an inner conversation. Some paths connect, others drift apart, and patterns and structures emerge and dissolve, echoing the tension between connection and isolation, between seeking and being found.

The process of creating this piece mirrors that same openness and presence:

At the very beginning, I accidentally spilled paint on one end of the canvas. The drops ran across the entire surface. Frustrating at first, I embraced the accident and incorporated it into the work. I asked myself: Where are you now?

Later, paradoxically, I made a spelling error while working on the piece. Living in constant acceleration, absorbed by other details, I didn’t notice it until a friend pointed it out. Embarrassed, I rushed to fix it… only to make a second mistake. I laughed, got frustrated, and even considered covering it all and starting from scratch. And once more, I returned to the question: Where are you now?

The piece is my invitation to pause and reflect: Where are you now? Not on a map, but in your experience of the world.