In Bear hug in a rush (2024) two unmoored figures hug in a tender yet violent embrace, while the transience of the city unfolds and wraps their bodies. One figure is holding the other back, showing that sometimes friendships are more complicated and hold you to your old self, making you unable to grow; sometimes they hold you softly and protect you. Alternating areas of textural softness and roughness, layered colour palette and non finito, the figures awkwardly float into liminal and unrecognisable spaces, bordering the reign of abstraction.