Hold the Line (Anambra to Bahia). 2025
A photo series exploring the diasporic connections between Nigeria and Brazil, and how those communities came to Canada.
The fabric featured in Funeral Rites acts a through line to further disperse the collective grief, and acts as a transformational connector. Instead of the fabric being heavy and in need to disperse and shave down trauma, it acts as a lattice of care and explores new ways to express Black Queer technologies, ways of knowing, and creating new access points here in Vancouver.
Agbada Continuum (2025)
A mixed media, drawing, dance, and video collage exploring the ideas of loops, light, and transformative layering.
The earliest draft of this work started with improvisational movement and dance with the core theme of capturing and waking into the light.
From there I took stills from the improvisational sessions, drew on top of them with ink and nzu centering the idea of kinetic energy, nervous systems, and star systems.
Then layered those back into a digital video, with the figures dancing and melting back into themselves.
Kpakpando Forged from Fire
A series of photos and mixed media drawings inspired by Nzu cleansing dance and herbalist rituals.
Embodied Starlight Explorations
A selection of photos printed out on inkjet printer, hand drawn with ink, scanned, and reprinted.
Ink referencing the markmaking found in the Nzu cleansing and protection rituals.
