Figurative

The time is here

Year: 2026
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Dimensions: Framed 110 x 150 cm
Location: Oliva, Valencia, Spain

A surface in which urgency and stillness coexist. The painting unfolds as a layered environment where forms emerge, dissolve, and reconfigure, suggesting a reality in transition rather than one that is fixed or resolved. Through an intuitive process of accumulation and erasure, Dow Kok allows structures, gestures, and traces of presence to surface gradually, giving the work a sense of temporal depth an image that has been formed through time rather than imposed upon it. Across the canvas, fragmented elements appear suspended between recognition and abstraction. Hints of figures, architectural fragments, or symbolic forms seem to arise, only to be absorbed again into the surrounding field. This instability creates a tension between visibility and disappearance, as if the painting captures a moment in which something is about to shift irreversibly. The title, "The time is here", functions not as a declaration but as a condition. It suggests an arrival that cannot be postponed, a threshold beyond which continuation in its previous form is no longer possible. Yet the painting resists dramatization. Instead of depicting an event, it holds the viewer within a state of awareness an intensified present where consequences are implied rather than shown. Dow Kok’s work does not offer resolution. Rather, it opens a space in which viewers encounter the fragility of structures both external and internal and the persistence of presence within them. In this sense, The time is here becomes less an image of a moment than an experience of it: a quiet but unmistakable recognition that something has already begun.