These
new pastel drawings are messy. Like life.

Hard
and bright and off-centre, but also funny, soft, and smudgy - they shout and
they whisper. 

Resolutely handmade: scratch-scratch-scratching pastel against
paper, covered in fingerprints, made without straight lines or tidy resolution.
No AI. No TikTok. Just a pencil, a piece of pastel, and the sub-tropical
suburbs of Durban - though they were begun across the world in LA, where
Platter stumbled upon a box of pastels and something loosened.

'Thank
You' assembles its world as a dense grid of vignettes and snapshots from
everyday life as observed: a criminal defense attorney's door in Las Vegas, a
roll of Mentos from the neighborhood petrol station, sub-tropical landscapes
seen from a car moving through an apocalyptic business park. Consumer ephemera
and lived experience press up against one another - Cheetos, Fanta, a rainbow,
the word LIBIDO - each panel holding its own frequency, the whole humming at
full volume. The
title is found rather than invented: lettering lifted from a plastic packet, 'thank you' repeated in descending rows until it becomes pattern, mantra, and - quietly - something genuine.