KRUGER (Lions Bay) 2021/GRAD 2022

I’m an emerging visual artist fascinated by the nature of abstraction and gestural composition. In this creative heart space and stream of consciousness, I act as a detective to recalibrate my understanding and notions of humanity to unify universal transgressions of the human condition. Binded by navigational and historical turmoil being a person of color, I’m a practitioner of decolonizing the work through the practice of abstraction and abrasive gestural mark making. I’m in service to creating a sensory experience that challenges our motions around decoding, compromising, and our associated relationships with the immediate realities of our world. Through the expression to unweave my interpersonal footprint, my work pushes the audience to question modalities and the awareness to our relationship with time as a fleeting narrative. My paintings are not a mere expression of seldom or emotions, but rather portraying what occurs in between the moments that are not visible to the human eye. Confronting notions of faith, the miraculous, and existence on the frontlines of humanity hidden behind the composed enduring vigor of the human spirit.