Growing up in The city during the tail end of the era, The artist became wrapped up in the culture of both the volatile anger and the escapism of culture. The Artist maintains this counter-cultural fusion in work that manages to balance, as he says, 'precariously between ecstasy and apocalypse, in that it simultaneously acknowledges the mess we're in, while still finding what's left of the luminous'. At the Biennale, The artist contributed to the re-creation of a collective work called 'Artists' Tower Against the War. Emerging from this project, The artist has created two paintings of a burning tower as a kind of epitaph to the many peace monuments around the world. 'Tower of Peace Towers' is set aflame against a bucolic landscape on a cloudless day with a single plumage of celestial black smoke that billows from the composite tower, linking it with the heavens like a latter day Tower of Babel. A similar ambiguity is evident in 'Car Bomb', which appears to be a violent explosion as well as a radiant sunrise.