Jake Bond (b. 2000) is a London-based artist whose work investigates themes of temporality, transformation, and mortality through evocative paintings that inhabit liminal, dreamlike spaces. His figures—often shifting between the human and the otherworldly—emerge through a process guided by pareidolia, where chance plays a vital role in revealing forms hidden within ambiguity. These in-between beings reflect the unstable boundaries of identity and perception, inviting viewers into introspective encounters where the familiar becomes uncanny. For Bond, painting is both a philosophical and emotional act—a way to explore his place within the larger cycles of life and to surface the unseen forces that shape our experience of reality.