In Pasadena, Tillian renders the Californian landscape not as a fixed location but as a shifting psychological and mythic terrain. Across two conjoined panels, abstracted fragments of foliage, architecture, and path-like forms suggest a city glimpsed through memory, dream, and transformation. Palm silhouettes, cloistered archways, and volcanic reds evoke both the natural abundance and colonial residues of the Pasadena region—once home to the Tongva people.
Pasadena invites viewers to traverse not only a place, but a passage—between wilderness and civilisation, past and present, seen and intuited.