As Tears Go By

As Tears Go By is an acrylic on canvas painting part of a series created for the Con-fluent exhibition at Pataka Museum & Art Gallery (Porirua) in Feb & March 2026. The Con-fluent exhibition is a collaborative project between local visual artists and poets. For this occasion I hooked up with Charmaine Thomson who is a published poet and for our research we delved into the concept of domesticated Minotaur, the symbolic (Jungian) deeper meaning of Labyrinth, and the role of red threads and ropes as a pathway to physical and spiritual liberation. As Tears Go By is an artistic exploration and expression of the bloody tears that flow following the destruction, death, injury and suffering caused by many of our leaders, claiming to be “the chosen ones”. It is not coincidental that I have used the colours of the Palestinian flag as the main palette for this painting.