GUKOMATA Drawings and the challenges of guiding

and the challenges of guiding young minds in an age of pervasive digital access

Stretched on a Wood Frame

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2020 | Acrylic on Paper

2024 | Acrylic on Canvas

GUKOMATA Drawings and the challenges of guiding2025 Oil on Canvas, Stretched on a Wood Frame Gukomata a Kinyarwanda word for the everyday contests that break out at communal water taps across rural Rwanda captures a scene at once specific and universal. Painted from memory after witnessing a dispute in Nyamata, the work draws Muhirwa back to his own childhood: the long walk to the valley, the jostling over position, the unspoken rules of who yields and who holds their ground. The figures press