Mystery and Marvel was inspired by time I spent by the Pacific Ocean – I became really interested in how light hits the water and how constantly it changes. That mix of stillness and movement kept drawing me in.I realised I wasnt just looking at the sea – I was noticing how it made me feel, and how light affects our sense of being present. Here, light becomes both subject and metaphor – a way of approaching the numinous, that state of awe, where seeing transforms into feeling, where representation gives way to resonance, and silence becomes a language of its own.My process is deeply informed by phenomenological thought, particularly the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who understood perception as a dialogue between body and world. Painting, for me, is an embodied act of witnessing – an attempt to hold still the shimmer of impermanence, to suspend time within gesture, a meditation on presence itself – a fleeting instant rendered luminous.