Supported by four blocky yellow roots, a sliced trunk with giant thornlike extrusions occupies the long canvas. The blue diffuse background rises through thinned fernlike staining to an upper area of dense orange. Here the upper branches are silhouetted and scumbled with texture. Revealed within the trunk is an elongated butterfly rendered as a graphic line drawing.

Trojanowski presents us with a psychological and expansive space, filled with a visual language of graphic forms and motifs that effortlessly fuse spontaneity and lightness with physicality, scale and material intuition. Captured as if one’s eyes were caught with frostbite, his work presents us with the daydreaming, the bright and unabating desire we have to reconnect with the outside - to the richness and magic of the ecological world around us.

This painting demonstrates Trojanowski’s wide range of material approaches, with drawing, staining and print techniques nestled among the painted areas.