Jason Phu’s subject is actor Hugo Weaving. Phu (who is also a subject in this year’s Archibald Prize), says:

older hugo from the future is fighting hugo from right now in a swamp, f*** everyone is a f****** c*** aren’t they, even the older version of you who was sent back in time to stop the world falling to s*** but couldn’t resist finding you and telling you about what you were doing wrong with your life, but like in a really personal and nasty way so that you somehow got into a fight in this swamp and all the frogs and insects and fish and flowers now look on and you both just look like a bunch of f***heads d***f*** horsec*** s***eater worm rat slugs.