Where the moment that altered everything returns, carrying the weight of a decade...
Some works mark a beginning; others honour the path that followed. From the Heavens lives in the rare place where both converge.
Created ten years after the photograph that first shifted Jenani from one life into another, this creation revisits a moment that once arrived unbidden — a jet’s trail descending across the sky, a structure poised in quiet instability, the world split by a single line of light.
In this return, the image is no longer document; it becomes remembrance. The industrial geometry dissolves into symbol, the accidental becomes fated, and the original instant is transformed by the fullness of the decade it set in motion. What was once observed from a distance now carries the weight of lived experience: clarity sharpened by sacrifice, ascent shaped by rupture, the quiet cost of becoming.
The surface holds that tension — the cosmic line that cuts through turbulence, the trembling form beneath it, the red trace of what must be relinquished for a life to change course. It is not an illustration of the past, but a reckoning with it, a recognition of the forces that intervene, redirect, and reshape. In its starkness lies a profound intimacy: the story of an artist meeting the moment that made her.
From the Heavens stands as a threshold work — a hinge between who she was, who she became, and the artist she now claims herself to be. It is both origin and culmination, tribute and transformation, the first beginning returned to with a decade of depth.
121 × 71 cm · Oil (Michal Harding & Old Holland) on Caravaggio Linen · 2025 · Signed Verso
Held in the artist’s care
