You Are Here, Somehow

At the heart of the canvas, a spiral of figures turns slowly inward toward one point of gold light. They rise from a warm, gilded ground, through banks of cloud, some reaching, some falling, some simply carried by the current. Fine lines of genuine gold leaf trace the spiral's pull, so the whole surface shifts and catches as you move past it.

The title holds the feeling the painting reaches for: the strange, quiet certainty of being somewhere, somehow, after moving between places and versions of yourself. It asks where a person finally sets themselves down, and answers softly, that we are held between ground and light, still turning toward our own centre.

The gilding follows the Western Illumination tradition, a technique developed for sacred manuscripts, which Hiumandy turns instead toward the contemporary human figure. Genuine gold leaf is laid by hand, not as ornament but as method, a way of marking what has lived, moved and been remade.

The approach is guided by Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken vessels with gold, applied here not to objects but to people, where fracture is made luminous rather than hidden. The painting is shown alongside a mirror-polished resin figure with gilded roots, raised on a slender sediment column, a small solitary presence set down beside the larger tide of figures.