She is currently interested in John Frum, a legendary figure who gave rise to a cargo cult in the South Pacific island of Tanna, Vanuatu. By tapping into the story of Frum, Bays looks at ways in which people have sought to understand the modern, secular world in more mythic terms. Bays’s images burst with revelations, drawn from sources such as psychedelic imagery (one painting features a character shaped like a mushroom) and Jungian archetypes.