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Memories of a Lost Homeland
Charcoal and Terracotta on canvas;   49”x45”x4 (119 x 61 cm)

These Fragments I Have Shored Against my Ruins
Charcoal and Terracotta on canvas;   52”x42”x1"
 

These Fragments I have shored against my ruins

Terracotta, acrylic, shellac, PVA on canvas
 

Madonna holding child
Acrylic, terracotta, shellac on canvas;   47’’ x 24” x 4"

In my paintings, I seek to abstract the human form, with the images being derived from colonial archives. With abstracting these archived brown bodies, I recontextualise the white gaze towards its 'primitive' subjects.
In 'Madonna Holding Child', I reconcile the popular divinal European subject with the people of my homeland. The paint is painstakingly applied in ten or more layers and then going over with a chisel, I excavate into the painting, forming wounds on the body.