GUKOMATA Drawings supervision

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This painting is part of an ongoing series that explores themes of intimacy

expressive brushwork

embodying the rich character and individuality that often come with life experience

GUKOMATA Drawings supervision2025 Oil on Canvas, Stretched on a Wood Frame Gukomata a Kinyarwanda word for the everyday contests that break out at communal water taps across rural Rwanda captures a scene at once specific and universal. Painted from memory after witnessing a dispute in Nyamata, the work draws Muhirwa back to his own childhood: the long walk to the valley, the jostling over position, the unspoken rules of who yields and who holds their ground. The figures press