SAKWEKA means 'a difficult path' in Swahili.

This series explores the emotional, relational, and experiential layers we navigate in life, using painting and object-based forms as a visual language.

While working in London, he became drawn to the texture, color, and irreplaceable nature of stained glass.

That quiet fascination inspired the foundation of the series.

Rather than using it as a decorative element, stained glass began to appear as a material base, shaping both the painted backgrounds and the illuminated sculptural works that extend from them.

Later, during his time in Tanzania, the artist worked closely with Makonde carvers, learning their rhythm and approach to form.

The Makonde carving tradition, once passed down across generations, now faces a shrinking presence.

This encounter led to a desire not only to honor that sculptural language but to reinterpret it through a personal perspective.

By working alongside the carvers, sketching, carving, and shaping together, experience turned into collaboration and collaboration into transformation.

Sakweka is not just about struggle or a difficult path. It speaks through decisions that challenge the expected.

Each material choice reflects a turn away from traditional methods. Carved wood instead of manufactured frames, Glass instead of canvas, Internal light instead of reliance on daylight.

These choices follow a path guided by instinct rather than certainty. The three paintings explore themes of emotion, relationships, and experience.

Each is accompanied by two stained glass objects, hand cut and set into carved wood, lit from within to stand independently of natural light.

No two are alike. Each existing as a singular composition shaped by movement, tension, and feeling.

This work is not trying to prove anything. It simply follows what has been felt, doubted, and left behind until it takes form.