When the moon knows you're wandering. Wanderer.

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By Joshua Donkor
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

30 × 30 × 3 cm

Materials:

Oil paint, graphite and image transfers.

Primary Medium:

Oil Painting

Small
2024
Signed on Back
Ready to display
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Wanderer, part 1 (Portrait of the artist) This self-portrait is the first painting in my current series “Wanderers”. This project explores moments of reconnection for members of the diaspora who have grown up in the UK. The idea for the project came from many of the conversations I’ve had with my sitters over the years. There has been one reoccurring experience that’s often comes in my conversations with other members of the diaspora. Many people reflect on a sense of familiarity, inexplicable for many visiting a their ancestral homes for the first time. This familiarity could have many forms, objects, language, customs or environment. I remember experiencing something similar the first time I visited Ghana as a child. Despite never having visited, I felt as though I knew my way round and even recognised certain places. Yet despite feeling an instant sense of connection with Ghana I also encountered the familiar feeling of being an outsider. Being mixed raced this feeling was further complicated as I found out that I was considered white by many people in Ghana despite having also being referred to as black growing up in a predominantly white area of the UK. This was an especially jarring experience especially at such a young age (around 11 at the time) when you are often just coming to terms with your personal sense of identity. The work I create and this project in particular stem from some of these earlier experiences in my life and this self-portrait is designed to be an intimate reflection of this continuous internal conversation over my sense of identity. Within the portrait I am surrounded by images of myself as a child with my Mother and Father. The representations of the distinctly contrasting histories and cultures that I am a product of, as I seek to establish a future drawing on the blessings and incredible perspective these influences and my upbringing has afforded me.

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