In this triptych of paintings on paper, Langa explores the shortcomings of language as a medium of expression. “As time went on,” he says, “I became conscious of how limiting it can be to just use words.” Pairing the same phrase in fields of different colours, he asks how each might in turn colour the sentiment expressed. That is, how the tone might affect the tone. I am so sorry, the words read against transparent washes of red, blue, and green. It is, the artist suggests, a phrase emptied of expression, banal, a “generic apology” without weight. Regardless, he is sorry (Langa too must make do with language’s ineptitude) – sorry in many shades. As to the nature of his apologies, he remains silent, wary of language and its limits, of explanation’s closing clause.