“Meet Deryl. Keep your eye on him”
Instead of merely depicting figures, my work reveals what they carry.
The body holds growth and knowledge.
The landscape remembers.
The image becomes a psychological field.
The audience becomes a witness within the encounter.
Mixed media on canvas
31 × 32 in
2026
#MeetDeryl #BlackFiguration #PsychologicalField #ArtAsWitness #ContemporaryPainting
Title : 12.5 M
Medium: Oil sticks, acrylic paints, dyes, pencil, and pastels on found material
Dimensions: 6’ x 3’4”
Improvised on found material, this work layers figures, a fractured, divided Africa, and the haunting number 12.5 million — evoking the lives displaced during the transatlantic slave trade. The surface, already carrying its own history, becomes a stage where colonial power, cultural memory, and African identity collide. In this collision, the work asks how African identity might exist beyond European influence, asserting a vision that resists inherited dominance and claims its own psychic ground.
