From working with fabric, with distinctive patterns and deep cultural resonance, that’s explore identity and continuity. Often it’s focus on  domesticity, and tradition,fragments of identity.  Makata’s work reflects the dislocation and reconfiguration of African identities in a globalized world. His use of cartons, by contrast, speak to circulation, consumerism and the politics of consumption.  Materials once economically tied to packaging, transport, and disposability, which evoke the transient economies of urban life. In Makata’s hands, cartons are transformed from overlooked carriers into structural and conceptual frameworks bearing imprints of movement and exchange- a metaphors for displacement and the loose infrastructure that shapes everyday life and existence 

Lately Makata would be involved in exploring animal bones , through accumulations and installation – this  allows him to extend other forms of approach and create room for a more visceral and spiritual dimension to his works.  Makata creates monumental installations in bold, gestural arcs – often rendered in red, white and black – that cut through the stillness with urgency. These forms read as suture, movement and containment, tracing pathways through memory and material. Makata’s practice is deeply philosophical yet materially grounded, he reclaims and reconfigures fragments of lived experience. Each element carries histories of use, displacement, and survival, forming new narratives that challenge dominant ideas of value, permanence, and progress.