THE PROMISED LAND
Height (cm): 162 Width (cm): 102 Materials: Canvas, Oil paint Date: 2024
In 2024 I visited my friend Asher who was working in Uganda. While there, I was able to see the relationships and ease she had grown with the culture around her. This painting is from a photo of a moment that encapsulated the authenticity of connections I saw there. While hiking in Sipi, we met three boys doing hand-less cartwheels over shrubs in crocs or bare feet. Asher took out her phone and filmed them - she beckoned them over and showed them the footage, which created this moment of joy. The shapes of their bodies, and freedom of their movement was authentic and childish, free and joyful. I have used a blue outline around the figures. Blue to express the energy passing between my friend and the boys, a colour with richness of intimacy and entrenched meaning seen in mythologies through the centuries. (MAVOR, Carol. 2013) Their figures' colours dance with the colours in the grass and trees: they touch nature
