Almost Touch (after Michelangelo) is a figurative oil painting reflecting on autonomy, reinvention and the excitement of self-authorship.

The familiar gesture of reach is reimagined without god in the picture. What once symbolised origin through external force becomes an act of internal ignition: the self as both creator and created.

The work explores the tension of the self-made condition: expansive, liberating and charged with possibility; yet lacking the clarity of divine instruction. Painted in luminous, unstable colour, the body feels in motion rather than resolved, suggesting that reinvention is not a fixed moment but an ongoing state - vibrant and entirely one’s own.