In naming his subsequent collection Unchained, we infer that Dan had cast off self-imposed restrictions and found a freer expression within his practice. Thus dawned an age of Dan creating under his own name rather than that of Mechanica, another portent that this was an artist on the cusp of evolution. Coalesce is the latest juncture in this pilgrimage, and – far from distancing himself from the artist he was – is an amalgamation, as the name suggests, of every facet of Dan’s journey to date.