For Adam de Boer, textile processes become a means of navigating personal questions of place and inheritance. Combining traditional Javanese batik techniques with a Western painting lineage, his works frame moments in the cultural and visual landscapes of California and Indonesia, reflecting on the layered histories embedded within contemporary urban life – specifically in this series, Los Angeles. Long Days Wane (2022) depicts an isolated beach in Rote, Indonesia during an idyllic coastal sunset. This is a place De Boer visited on honeymoon with his wife in 2022. The title refers to Anthony Burgess's semi-autobiographical trilogy of books 'The Long Day Wanes' which is about his time teaching in Malaya at the end of British colonial rule. De Boer’s family emerged from Dutch colonial projects in the region, and much of his research on the subject is concerned with the end of empire, or how regimes change and redefine themselves.