Oil on stretched canvas, ready to hang.

Signed on the back.

This artwork was made in the wake of the devastating bushfires and the onset of the covid-19 pandemic. I wanted to make a painting that both transported me elsewhere - imaginatively speaking - and held me fast in a groundless, ambivalent space. I wanted the painting to mirror the lack of certainty - the inability of myself and others to predict what would happen next, hence the name 'oracledeficit'. I also wanted the painting to contain painting's most mesmeric and tantalising material qualities, as these can heighten the sense of the present when viewing an artwork.