Edgar Allan Poe called it 'The Imp of the Perverse", Freud called it "The Death Drive" and the French called it l'appel du vide, which simply translates into 'the calling of the void.'

The urge to self sabotage is a phenomenon that is experienced almost disturbingly frequently and is often barely acknowledged in day-to-day life. This completely natural psychological occurrence is the brain's attempt to take back control in a specific situation, like looking down at the ocean lapping at the pier beneath one's feet, or standing on a high building. Subtle, underlying urges in the human psyche are in constant movement, just underneath the surface of consciousness. When they are not acknowledged, the brain might expose morbid thoughts by pushing them to the surface in an attempt to self-sabotage.

Inspiration slowly revealed itself through abstract expressionistic colour-fields. I found myself wondering exactly what lies beneath the water and what will suddenly appear on the horizon, by following the current in my own subconscious. One can recall Freud's psychoanalysis and comparison of the identity, ego and superego through this natural occurrence and landscape.