Every day in the garden ended. And re-entering the world - its noise, its pace, the particular density of people who had spent their day somewhere entirely different - required a kind of recalibration that took time. Sometimes hours. Sometimes longer.

"After" is a series of acrylic paintings about that moment of return. About what people look like - really look like - when you've spent eight hours in near-total solitude with the natural world and then step back into the middle of them. Not distorted. Not unkind. Just seen differently. With the particular clarity, and the particular strangeness, that comes from having been somewhere else entirely.

Where Within began with a brush, After begins with a palette knife - a harder, more immediate tool, less forgiving, more alive to accident. The approach is more fluid, more abstracted. If Within has the quality of something understood, After is about making a mess and finding sense in it. Letting the paint lead. Discovering structure beneath the chaos.