Work from 2013-2014

Sketches made in Kampala (some reworked and changed)

In a taxi
Acrylic and posters paints on box crate (materials from kampala)
​Uganda city residency

This series was painted on unassembled box crates, pieces of wood I acquired from a downtown industrial area with a local friend, Jonathan Mwesiqwa, who studied art at Makerere and is now the pastor of a church in Gayaza. John offered to take me by public transport to buy wood and paint, a welcome suggestion after a few failed attempts of my own. Kampala’s main industrial areas are primarily made up of small informal businesses, often selling secondhand goods. At a small shop called Nile Ply Woods, Jonathan bartered for a few pieces of elongated box crate sheets in Luganda, the language spoken in the central area. These pieces were hand-sawn into smaller parts, and we asked the carpenter to bend the rectangular aluminum fittings over to one side as they could not be removed without breaking the wood. Although I primed the boards with PVA, they retained a lot of their original texture. In one work specifically, deep indents run over the top half of the painting.

Kampala inner city market
Acrylic and posters paints on box crate (materials from kampala)
Uganda city residency

(unfinished) Celly-Neyda in the dining room
​Acrylic and posters paints on box crate (materials from kampala)
Uganda city residency

​(reworked) Jonathan's house
​Acrylic and posters paints on box crate (materials from kampala)
Uganda city residency

​(unfinished) Guests for dinner
Acrylic and posters paints on box crate (materials from kampala)
Uganda city residency

​(unfinished) At Betty's house
​Acrylic and posters paints on box crate (materials from kampala)
Uganda city residency

(unfinished) At Amagaramasya
​Acrylic and posters paints on box crate (materials from kampala)
Uganda city residency

At the arts department
​Acrylic and posters paints on box crate (materials from kampala)
Uganda city residency

Inner city garden
​Acrylic and posters paints on box crate (materials from kampala)
Uganda city residency