Synapse

Oil Painting, 2025
70 x 90 cm

This painting was made specifically for Translocations ISSUE 01 ‘Are you a Translocator?’ magazine cover, released in 2026. Below is an extract from the article ‘un(COVER)ed’ which details the theory and thought process behind the front cover and this painting. More about the painting can be read in the magazine itself.

‘Synapse’ is an embodiment of conversation and exchange. Visually, it’s an abstracted zoom into a neural synapse, the moment ideas leap from one cell to another. In our context; the neurotransmitters are the stories we translocators share; the synaptic cleft is the space between cultures, geographies or philosophies; the receptors are the points where knowledge lands and takes root. One translocator speaks, another receives, and in that exchange a new kinship is formed. A bond.

– Sohaila and Bhundia, H. eds., (2026). Are You a Translocator? 01 ed. Translocation, pp.58–59.