A study from a series about the river of consciousness, this painting uses elemental forms to depict the artist's inner world, a place where he continuously discovers new images. The elemental forms that run along the bank of the river are akin to the feeling of being pulled away from your present state.

Whelan creates work as a means of self-confrontation, and he treats paintings as objects that must react to the environment around them—thereby mirroring the same dynamic our surroundings have on us. The artist does this by using texture as color, often building up gestural impasto layers of paint to construct surfaces that dance with light. The resulting compositions experientially change as the day goes by.