RESIDENCIES
“To the Beat of Liberty’s Drum”
Digital artwork of a woman with dark skin, long blonde hair, wearing a blue dress with white patterns, standing amidst a vibrant abstract background with yellow grid lines, flowers, and red graffiti-like scribbles. 
Adobe x Meta Angels October 2022 Artist-in-residence

True freedom comes from accepting and loving yourself at whatever stage you are in life, but often there are societal structures and standards that makes doing that incredibly hard.

This peace symbolizes the fight against those oppressive structures and pressures in an effort to find that freedom in choosing yourself. The contrast between the figures movement and the rigidity of the lines around her are attempt to highlight that battle.

And as the resistance begins, that stringency slowly begins to fall apart.

Allowing her to begin her dance, to begin her journey to freedom.

Because in a society like ours, going against the grain and choosing yourself is very often a revolutionary act in and of itself. So here's to breaking free!

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WILD XYZ Season 0 Artist-in-Residence
“As Above so Below”

A 100-piece collection that is a celebration and exploration of identity. Each piece features Black women adorned in beautifully detailed clothing, set on backgrounds full of rich color and texture. Flowers and other plants are featured heavily throughout the collection, giving each piece a sense of softness and ease. Each piece was drawn, painted, and composed individually. I created and named the pieces in clusters of 10. When viewed as a whole collection, the works create a cohesive story, with each cluster representing different stages of life. With names like “Self-Care”, “Self-Doubt”, “Self-Discovery”, and “Self-Reliance”, the work speaks to the complex relationships we have with ourselves, and the emotions associated with our identities.

I wanted to be able to convey the metamorphosis of healing. Each of the pieces in the collection is representing a different stage in the healing process & it can be observed in the order the audience is at in their healing. While this collection is deeply personal for me, it’s designed for viewers to relate with regardless of what stage of life they are in. The collection is inspired by my own journey to finding myself and healing from past traumas but its also just about a lot of different phases you can go through during transitionary periods in your life. I named it “As above, so below” to put forward that there’s a need for this journey in every realm of reality. It is a part of nature itself for everyone to go through it, but I wanted to express with my own point of view as a queer Nigerian woman, learning and unlearning. All 100 pieces sold out completely in 3 days, so I think its safe to say that the message resonated.

  • An artistic illustration of two women with dark skin and long hair, standing closely together. The background features pastel pink with colorful, abstract floral patterns. The women wear patterned clothing, and one has a signature on her shoulder.

    Self Reliance

  • A woman with dark skin, wearing a red headscarf and earrings, is sleeping on her side on a striped pillow. She is wearing a black top and an orange bracelet. The background is a green patterned surface.

    Self Care

  • Stylized illustration of a woman with dark skin and curly hair wearing a green and yellow striped dress against a pink background with yellow floral patterns and blue swirling designs.

    Self Help

  • Self Doubt

  • A stylized digital illustration of a woman with short hair, wearing earrings and jewelry, resting her head on her hand while holding a cane. The background features red and white stripes with blue and yellow floral and fan patterns.

    Self Sabotage

  • Digital artwork of a woman with dark skin, wearing a red headscarf and colorful striped top, resting her head on her hand amidst lavender flowers and abstract purple striped background.

    Self Actualization

  • An illustration of a woman with dark skin sitting among yellow flowers. She has a yellow headwrap, a blue dress with red and cream pattern, and a hand is reaching down to her forehead. The background features a geometric pattern with red and green lines.

    Self Control

  • A digital artwork of a woman with dark skin and long hair, wearing a blue patterned dress, holds a black panther mask, with colorful abstract and floral patterns in the background.

    Self Guidance

  • Two women with large red head wraps, wearing purple and blue striped dresses, holding hands, walking through a colorful floral background with yellow, green, purple, and blue flowers.

    Self Discovery

  • A woman with dark skin, long black braids, and colorful jewelry is lying among purple flowers with a patterned purple dress. The background features green and yellow geometric and floral designs.

    Self Reflection

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"Threaded Lineage"
FEED Media Art Residency 2025
Display of fashion mannequins with colorful patterned fabrics against a digital backdrop of abstract patterns and red textured landscapes.
Close-up of colorful textured fabrics with an orange thread, in varying patterns and colors including red, purple, and brown, arranged on a patterned background.
A multi-layered, artistic collage featuring a woman in a patterned dress with fringe, holding a vintage sewing machine over her shoulder. The background has intricate geometric patterns and an overlay of an older woman smiling.
Artwork of a woman sewing on a sewing machine, with a patterned background.

The work created during this residency with FEED was a visual art series that pays homage to the cultural, familial, and somewhat spiritual inheritance embedded in the act of sewing. Drawing from my personal matrilineal story where my great grandmother passed down the skill of tailoring to my grandmother who in turn passed it to my mother. Unfortunately, never truly being able to grasp its significance, when my mother tried to continue this tradition and pass it down to me, I resisted. Now, I reflect on what has, in a way, been lost. This work is an act of respect and reclamation as I attempt honoring the hands that stitched before mine and grieve the gap in the lineage. Creating pieces that celebrate that history and patterns in general, I hope to put forward this series as a gesture of reverence until I learn to sew myself. Through this series, I position fabric and tailoring as not only functional or decorative, but sacred - especially in the context of African identity and cultural expression. These works will do all this while also, exploring how digital tools can preserve lost or at-risk cultural practices.

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