Tschabalala Self presents new paintings in which figures inhabit distinct interior conditions — states of grace, vulnerability, and spiritual protection — rendered through Self's characteristic fusion of stitch, textile assemblage, and paint. Drawing on vernacular language, scripture, and embodied experience, the works locate the universal within the deeply particular. Creek finds a figure at ease beside metaphorical waters; Humility presents a man bowed before the sheer magnitude of life; The Anointed Head draws on Psalm 23:5; and Kana — companion to Humility — has the two figures bowing toward one another when placed together. Each painting asks what it means to exist fully within one's own body and one's own life.
