Matthew Kenneth HendricksAll work
Dreamlike digital collage of overlapping blue and orange human figures, interlaced with a photograph of Switzerland and layered over a muted landscape, with a small distant figure and windmill-like structure below.

Within me · 2026

Dreaming of a better place

Digital collage on unstretched Hahnemühle Cézanne canvas

63.5 × 53 cm

What does it mean to feel like you belong somewhere else?

I travelled to Switzerland to visit my wife’s family. I felt like I belonged there more. Less racism. Less fear.

An Ausländer. How can that be?

Where do I belong?

Belonging

Source credits

Original photography by Matthew Kenneth Hendricks

J.M.W. Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834, 1835

August Macke, People by the Blue Lake, 1913

Claude Monet, Un Moulin à Zaandam (A Windmill at Zaandam), 1871

Egon Schiele, Seated Man in an Orange Sweater, 1915