A contemporary take on a romantic pastoral portrait, this new three-panel work for Artspace grapples with being ‘collapse aware’–residing between the slipperiness of the past and the instability of the present, in a moment permeated with conflict and precarity. Investigating the sensation of longing and the collapse of time, Abraham conjures a frenzied evolutionary diagram: a chronology of a painting composed of half-formed memories which cannot be fixed to a singular moment. Unidentified figures tussle and collapse onto each other, moving between moments of brutality and tenderness, suspension and animation, tension and release.