This mural was commissioned by UTAS (University of Tasmania) and delivered with the assistance of Vibrance Projects. It is painted across two areas of this new public space, and the two halves are visually and conceptually linked. In the larger of the two murals I have painted my daughter, Mia, peering into a portal. I often paint portals in my work as a way of symbolising possibility and potential - the emptiness of nothing from which something springs. Within this portal is a shelf of books, symbolic of human knowledge, and an Eastern Quoll emerging from the depths, symbolising non-human knowledge. Mia’s hand and the quoll’s paw rest upon the edge of the portal, whilst below there is a collection of old drawers.