Matthew Kenneth HendricksAll work
Colourful digital collage with bright buildings, a painted figure seated alone at a small table, abstract human figures, and a photograph of Lion’s Head.

Within me · 2026

Place

Digital collage on unstretched Hahnemühle Cézanne canvas

29.7 × 42 cm

You leave a place, but does a place ever leave you?

South Africa shapes my experience.

It makes me street-wise. Smile and greet staff when I probably shouldn’t. Drink too much.

But it also makes me fear.

Clutch my valuables. Judge too quickly by skin colour, area and occupation.

When I leave South Africa, will it ever leave me?

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Source credits

Photography by Matthew Kenneth Hendricks

August Macke, Türkisches Café (Turkish Café), 1914. Lenbachhaus, Munich.