This work aims to encapsulate the detrimental practice of colonialism and emphasizes how these destructive practices have cultivated the current hyper-exploitative capitalist systems of today, at the cost of our environment and the indigenous communities that inhabit them.
The work alludes to the trauma of getting torn away from one’s native land, linking the violence of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the colonial empires that propelled it with the current political strife that continues this narrative, in the form of genocide, imperial expansion, and exceptionalism.
Without relying on any reference, I painted this abstract landscape purely from memory, intuition, and ancestral connection. The form does not represent one particular country or land mass, rather, it attempts to see the Earth as a body, equally susceptible to violence as our human ones. Still, I cling to hope by placing a found hand-painted bamboo totem at the top of the painting as a symbol of unity and resilience, upending the notion “us” and “them” and subverting it with a notion of “one”.
| A | B | C | |
|---|---|---|---|
| XS | 700 mm 27.56 inch | 480 mm 18.9 inch | 200 mm 7.87 inch |
| S | 710 mm 27.95 inch | 505 mm 19.88 inch | 204 mm 8.03 inch |
| M | 730 mm 28.74 inch | 530 mm 20.87 inch | 210 mm 8.27 inch |
| L | 750 mm 29.53 inch | 555 mm 21.85 inch | 216 mm 8.5 inch |
| XL | 770 mm 30.31 inch | 580 mm 22.83 inch | 222 mm 8.74 inch |
| XXL | 790 mm 31.1 inch | 610 mm 24.02 inch | 230 mm 9.06 inch |
| 3XL | 810 mm 31.89 inch | 640 mm 25.2 inch | 238 mm 9.37 inch |
| 4XL | 830 mm 32.68 inch | 675 mm 26.57 inch | 248 mm 9.76 inch |
| 5XL | 850 mm 33.46 inch | 710 mm 27.95 inch | 258 mm 10.16 inch |
This work aims to encapsulate the detrimental practice of colonialism and emphasizes how these destructive practices have cultivated the current hyper-exploitative capitalist systems of today, at the cost of our environment and the indigenous communities that inhabit them.
The work alludes to the trauma of getting torn away from one’s native land, linking the violence of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the colonial empires that propelled it with the current political strife that continues this narrative, in the form of genocide, imperial expansion, and exceptionalism.
Without relying on any reference, I painted this abstract landscape purely from memory, intuition, and ancestral connection. The form does not represent one particular country or land mass, rather, it attempts to see the Earth as a body, equally susceptible to violence as our human ones. Still, I cling to hope by placing a found hand-painted bamboo totem at the top of the painting as a symbol of unity and resilience, upending the notion “us” and “them” and subverting it with a notion of “one”.
| A | B | C | |
|---|---|---|---|
| XS | 700 mm 27.56 inch | 480 mm 18.9 inch | 200 mm 7.87 inch |
| S | 710 mm 27.95 inch | 505 mm 19.88 inch | 204 mm 8.03 inch |
| M | 730 mm 28.74 inch | 530 mm 20.87 inch | 210 mm 8.27 inch |
| L | 750 mm 29.53 inch | 555 mm 21.85 inch | 216 mm 8.5 inch |
| XL | 770 mm 30.31 inch | 580 mm 22.83 inch | 222 mm 8.74 inch |
| XXL | 790 mm 31.1 inch | 610 mm 24.02 inch | 230 mm 9.06 inch |
| 3XL | 810 mm 31.89 inch | 640 mm 25.2 inch | 238 mm 9.37 inch |
| 4XL | 830 mm 32.68 inch | 675 mm 26.57 inch | 248 mm 9.76 inch |
| 5XL | 850 mm 33.46 inch | 710 mm 27.95 inch | 258 mm 10.16 inch |
