Metamorphosis: The Shape of Tomorrow is a transformative body of work that captures the essence of personal evolution, growth, and renewal. Through bold compositions and dynamic movement, this series explores the human journey through seasons of change—shedding old layers, embracing vulnerability, and stepping into purpose. Each piece serves as a visual metaphor for new beginnings, resilience, and the courage to imagine a different future. Rooted in emotional depth and symbolic transformation, Metamorphosis invites the viewer to witness and reflect on their own shape-shifting becoming—an unfolding toward something greater, more grounded, and beautifully unknown.

Florence, Italy

Enigma Dell’anima (Enigma of the Soul), Greatjoy explores the hidden truths of the human soul - truths kept only to self, away from the judgment of the outside world. He seeks to probe the ulterior motives and intentions that people hide from the world, and peels away the layers that conceal the core truth - the source of our genuine emotions and motivations.

We all have our own deep story, tales virgin to the ears of our kin and neighbor.

What is your story?

What is your confession, your vice, your aspiration - your ‘longing’ - for years foreign to those closest to you?

The feeling is universal; the theme is timeless - and it shapes our individual lives.

Our stories may be objectively different to the ear - but the ideal is one - to live life with high magnitudes of intensity in areas that are deeply meaningful to us. We have a strong yearning to touch parts of the world that we personally care about. This series illuminates our shared condition.

The collection echoes a universal mystery held selfishly in every human heart - a mystery rich in form and expression, profusely splat on the world’s 7+ billion.

Johannesburg, South Africa

This series explores the abstract portrayal of the internal conflict between a man and the thoughts of his mind. The brain—master of all conscious thought and maneuver—is imagined as assuming a persona of its own, distinct from the bodily man’s convictions. It speaks independently, often engaging the quieter, more intuitive self in matters of circumstance and consequence.

Though the mind resides within the body, the two often interpret reality differently, leaving the man in a state of conflict. In these works, the brain emerges as a complex figure—sometimes wise and authoritative, other times devious and perplexing. It claims great insight, yet often exhibits astonishing levels of arrogance, self-deception, confusion, and ignorance.

In contrast, its counterpart—what one might call the ‘better half’—is marked by fluidity and a polychromatic essence. This side of the self wields a quieter, compelling intelligence that fuels positive action, often striving for the betterment of the whole being.

Together, these two entities share a mystical, inseparable bond—one of mutual contemplation, shared victories, and collective grief. As external pressures mount, they conspire in tandem to formulate swift responses. In the matured individual, the brain evolves—wiser and more seasoned—choosing reflection over reaction, and intellect over instinct.

Even amid differing interpretations of circumstance, the Man and the Brain are bound by a common cause. This condition—often described as double-mindedness—reflects the timeless mystery of intra-self dialogue: silent consultations within the mind. Their interdependence is immeasurable, their unity forged by nature and preserved through the basic necessity of survival.

Johannesburg, South Africa

A Journey Etched in Charcoal, Fire, and Becoming

This body of work is not merely a collection of images—it is a visual odyssey into the heart of a man reshaped by struggle, vision, and grace. The Path to Greatjoy is a series born from the tension between silence and voice, between inherited identities and chosen selves. Each piece is an altar where memory meets metamorphosis.

Rendered in charcoal, oil, and ash, the work evokes the weight of history and the lightness of transcendence. Figures emerge not as static portraits but as becomings—unfolding souls suspended between the man they were told to be and the man they are discovering themselves to be. The surfaces bear witness to fracture, to fire, and to freedom.

At its core, this series explores the anatomy of emotional survival. It asks:
What does it mean to feel deeply in a world that rewards detachment?
What does it mean to carry hope in a body marked by wounds?

Through visceral gesture and emotive form, Greatjoy confronts the myth of the unshaken man. Instead, he paints and draws the trembling, the resilient, the yearning. He gives voice to internal dialogue—the quiet war between who we are and who we pretend to be.

The work walks alongside themes of masculinity, self-inquiry, displacement, and spiritual restoration, not as answers, but as open doors. A contemplative tension lingers in every composition—a kind of sacred discomfort, urging the viewer to sit with their own hidden truths.

The Path to Greatjoy is not linear. It spirals. It doubles back. It stumbles and rises.
It is the visual record of a life chosen with intention. A prayer in pigment.
A map drawn by firelight.

This is not the story of a man who arrived.
It is the story of a man who continues to arrive,
again and again,
into the fullness of his name.