This painting by Elizabeth Sekyiamah expresses movements and patterns associated with domestic rituals. Gestural lines explode in a starburst, each mark echoing the motion of a body at work. Geometric shapes and patterns swarm together, twisting, overlapping, sometimes overtaking the foreground and sometimes receding into the back, suggesting the never-ending ebb and flow of activity and rest. Sekyiamah’s compositions serve as gathering places for a range of symbolic and abstract elements that together express the poetry and humanity of her daily life. Even the color worlds in her paintings are inspired by her psychological and emotional reaction to her lived experience. “My work is about domestic lives,” says Sekyiamah. “It’s inspired by daily actions, me waking up, working, everything we do. It’s continuous. Visually it repeats itself. I pick my colors from things around me. That’s where my inspiration is from. Bright colors represent happy moments, dark colors represent something else.”