This painting began without a predetermined subject or story. I used automatic drawing to create spontaneous marks across the canvas, then searched them through pareidolia for suggestions of human figures. As each character emerged, I developed different expressions, gestures and psychological states, sometimes combining several possibilities within a single figure.

The resulting crowd represents no particular place, event or group of people. Instead, the work reflects my experience of observing unfamiliar people and instinctively imagining their moods, personalities and possible behaviour. The painting becomes a record of this process—moving from uncertainty to interpretation, while recognising that what I imagine about these figures may be very different from reality, and equally different from what each viewer sees and imagines in them.