'Now', 2024

The painting depicts a modern, multi-story building at night. The dark building has a rectangular shape with a prominent vertical light featured on one corner. The sky is a deep, saturated, dark blue, indicating night-time, and the building is illuminated by external streetlights with little to no internal lighting. There are trees and shrubs in the foreground, and a staircase leading up to the building's entrance. The overall atmosphere is clean and slightly mysterious due to the night-time. The building gives a strong dominating, possibly threatening feel with the contrast between the dark silhouette with the surrounding bright lights.

Next door to the Cambridge Street Collective, and recently opened as part of the 'Heart of Sheffield' development ( https://heartofsheffield.co.uk/elshaw ). The building, Elshaw House is an impressive, future looking, environmentally low carbon building, that on this aspect appears quite dominating. Home to the law firm, DLA Piper, there's no escaping that this is a purely 21st century build. Something that could sit quite at home in a Bladerunner-like setting. I'm going to say there's a side of me that quite likes it for this. The problem: Bladerunner was supposed to be a warning of a possible future not something to actually aim towards.