Throughout this painting, fruit metaphorically symbolizes indigeneity and colonial resistance. Color held a significant role in this piece as I intentionally used red, black, green, and white for the Palestinian and Sudanese flags, along with red, yellow, and blue to symbolize the Democratic Republic of Congo. It holds heavy importance for me as a second-generation Congolese, Rwandan, and Nigerian to highlight the beauty amongst fellow intersecting, marginalized communities through unionizing our struggles. There are abstracted watermelons, olives, mangoes, and passionfruit weaving themselves between branches of abstraction, along with seeded organic structures, symbolizing alignment between shared colonized cultures across the Global South. Fruit is also utilized as representation of my connection, longing for restoration, and experiencing a home that lives inside me, though I have yet to visit my motherlands.
