Where We Become is a series of oil paintings on repurposed shade cloth that explore home as the foundation of identity. For Landu, home is not simply a physical structure but the first landscape of the self, the place where our earliest relationships, memories and contradictions quietly accumulate.

“I believe home is where identity first takes root,” says Landu. “Its worn floors, cracked walls and faded corners become witnesses to time, love, loss and transformation, reminding us that identity is shaped through accumulated experience rather than a single moment.”

The shade cloth on which Landu paints is itself charged with meaning. A woven material used across Kinshasa and Johannesburg as makeshift shelter for street vendors, its rough, gridded surface resists fluid brushwork, forcing an improvisation that echoes the artist’s broader interest in resilience and transient survival within public space. Layered over time, the paint becomes a metaphor for memory itself, with each mark settling over the last, much as identity is formed gradually through repeated experience rather than any single defining moment.