You Are Here

In the magnificent two-panel work titled ‘You Are Here’, Simon explains that the title references contemporary local or evacuation maps. It directly attempts to embody the spatial and perspective inconsistencies common in historical cartographic objects - where giant ships and sea monsters exist in a separate realm from the exacting maps they inhabit.

The work contrasts ancient motifs found on maps and in historical books of knowledge with contemporary technology, unusual perspectives, and mundane tasks, all in a phenomenal technicolour vista captured across the diptych.

Art critic Matthew Holman likened the painting to Dutch master Hieronymus Bosch (d.1516) who combined impossible juxtapositions into a coherent composition. “Simon arranges the infrastructure of modern capitalism to reveal the divine and the damned within the same scale-defying universe.”