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These new “urban still life” paintings are part of my ongoing “journeys” series, combining original photographs with acrylic and mixed media. The process is an attempt to revisit special places, to assign new meanings and context and to link the past with the present.
The photographs reveal moments frozen in time, each one a reminder of a passage or fork along the path I have travelled from Africa to North America. The rusted iron rings and gates, bound to concrete, are a recurring theme, symbolizing the yearning of an immigrant to gain entry, commit and belong. Each piece starts out strong and bold and then fades away like a memory, blurring into the background – a reminder that one can never go back and revisit a place and point in one’s life.
There will always be a new context and meaning.
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