A departure with no return is a touring mural which was commissioned by Counterpoints Arts for Refugee Week 2021. On the Southbank Centre's Riverside Terrace 2021
' Migrant culture is mostly represented through those who have concluded their journeys – those who have arrived, survived, and settled. The culture testifies the struggles of accepting a new home in a foreign land, and affirms the distance of a homeland, mounting the notion of ‘origin’ as the central piece to the migrant’s spirituality. However, there is a great deal of spirituality and imagination that entails a migrant’s journey – after their departure and before their arrival – that we believe is strongly underrepresented.
