A New Day for weeds

Original artwork
Mixed media on canvas
100 × 90 CM, 2026

About the Work

We live in a world where systems and institutions continue to create walls and inconvenience, serving only a disproportionate few. This painting imagines what comes after. The old structures that no longer serve us have fallen to the ruins, the way empires and civilisations before them did. Together, they represent an entangled history, one in which the consequences of colonialism, inequality and systems imposed across generations cannot simply be separated from the present.

The weeds become a metaphor for those who have been disadvantaged by such realities. But this is not a painting about remaining beneath them. It is about the possibility of another day. A day when what was dismissed as a weed is given the space to grow.

I remember questioning whether I should make the statement as clearly as I eventually did. There is always a tension between making work that leaves room for interpretation and making work that says: this is something I need you to see.
This story is personal.
It comes from being Jamaican and from understanding that the histories we inherit do not disappear simply because time moves forward. But it is also collective.
There are many people whose present realities have been shaped by structures created long before they were born. The buildings hidden within the work became a way for me to make that history visible without allowing the past to become the only story.Because history is full of empires that appeared permanent until they weren't.
What seems immovable can become ruins. What has been pushed into the cracks will find a way to grow.
A New Day For Weeds is a one-of-a-kind original. It will not be reproduced as an original.
It is hand-signed and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
This work is executed on premium linen with professional deep aluminium stretcher support and reinforced cross-bracing. The surface is prepared with multiple acrylic gesso layers and an isolation coat.
The finished work is sealed with a protective archival varnish. Every material decision was made with the same intention as the work itself
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