This Journal will attempt to contextualise my creative practice by representing the key concepts and arguments that continue to inform my artistic practice today. While it is hard for me to exactly quantify what propels me to continue to make art, I believe that there has always been some sort of existential enquiry at its core. For much of my early artistic life, I’ve attempted to locate the self through figurative representations of both the natural and human-made landscapes that unfolded before me. Exploring how these geographic landmarks and environmental factors had influenced and informed my identity as a person within various countries, cultures, societies and family dynamics. In identifying and representing these scenes mostly in oil painting on canvas, I now see that what I created was a self-referential and retrospective art practice. One, which was biased by my privileges and objectified by my Anglo-Australian gaze. Today, with the acknowledgement of these biases and the acceptance that one is always creating form one’s own perspective, my artwork has evolved from those figurative paintings and is now located in an awareness of actions within the process of drawing.