"Rite of Passage"

“My first memory of being out at night was in the safety of my brother’s car. As a young child, I was used to waking up at daybreak, and after coming home from school, getting ready for bed before nightfall. This is a significant memory in my life where I got to go out at night with my brother.” The painting gives you the artists’ perspective, placing the audience within a distant but not so far-gone memory. The simplicity of the work aims to evoke the feeling behind the memory as opposed to the memory itself. The mask represents the artists signature and is influenced by West African masks. This signature is entitled “Urban decay”.