Matthew Kenneth HendricksAll work
Digital collage combining photographs of Sea Point and a playground in Sea Point, Cape Town, with crashing waves, a seagull staring directly at the viewer, a green mountain and a solitary abstract figure.

Within me · 2026

I (sea) point

Digital collage on unstretched Hahnemühle Cézanne canvas

28 × 19.8 cm

Sometimes it’s difficult to occupy spaces that society tells me I don’t belong in. This collage reflects the sadness, loneliness, and some of the anger that comes with being othered in South African society.

I was born free, but I don’t feel free. Thirty-two years later, why are suburbs still defined by the race that is expected to occupy them? What’s wrong with us?

Belonging