Muneerah Yate

“Uncharted Waters” 

“This unfinished work is inspired by my quest in recent years to better understand myself. What I’ve realised very quickly in my healing journey was that one’s childhood is pretty much where it all starts (sounds obvious now that I’m saying it) and despite exploring my childhood for over 9 years now, it still feels like I’m scratching the surface. During my undergraduate we had two lockdowns, it was during the first one that I started utilising drawing digitally because of a lack of facilities and space. Now after graduating I’m finding digital drawing, again, to be really accessible, especially whilst having had to juggle the continuing pandemic, months of job searching and now a full-time job. With this piece, I envision illustrating the brightness that is often associated with a child’s world, the depths of memory, the nostalgia, the distance, the love and the freedom. I would like it to display what I’m feeling right now on my journey: that it has been difficult, very very difficult, but ultimately, I find joy in getting to know myself.”