Juan Ford’s painting is a self-portrait about his journey through life. Describing the work, Ford says: ‘This journey is an odd one. A boy living in a satellite suburb, from an idealistic, bi-cultural family grows up and runs from that town as soon as possible. He studies hard at science and enrols in an engineering degree. Somewhere along the way he starts attending art school student parties, where they actually have girls in their courses. A year later he’s one of them himself. An art student, I mean.