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Haizel’s approach to abstraction borrows aesthetics from local paint shop environments,
wherein different surfaces exist as a swatch board for paint samples. The inspiration and process behind these works is accumulative and imbued with a spirit of existential inquiry.

LOOKING AT YOUR HANDS
…. And so
if you see me
looking at your hands
listening when you speak
marching in your ranks
you must know
I do not sleep to dream, but dream to change
the world. – Martin Carter (1951)

In the introduction to ‘Decolonising the Mind’1, Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, establishes that the book’s theme is inspired by the Guyanese …