KNOCK OFF
2025.
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: L50cm xW25cm
This painting was born from a moment of recognition. The youth, the emergence, the unapologetic declaration that we are here and we are loving the life we live.
This painting is my attempt to reclaim that softness. To honour the moment. To say yes, I see you. I see the fists clenched not in anger but in power. I see the adornments, the gold rings, the red fabric, the hair flowing like memory. I see the pride and the pain and the joy of being alive in a city that does not always make space for it.
This piece is a reminder to stay true. To resist the lure of the limelight and the validation of the status quo. To remember that beauty lives in the margins and that truth does not need permission to shine
Esther Akello 