Entwining biblical myth with speculative geneaology...
Afropunk Festival, Ikorodu, Lagos, Nigera 1982. The kids came dressed as cats, we don’t know why…
Sketches for Untitled Kingdom Volume IV: “Literary & Debating Society”, an episode in which the girls at the orphanage fortuitously receive the wrong uniforms, instead of the ones ordered for them at the behest of the First Lady. The backstory: the orphan schoolgirls have now figured out how to wield certain forest magic elements in their favour, and set about to end their isolation and ...
As kids, back in Nigeria, sometimes we’d go strolling with my aunt in the evenings to get nocturnal treats, roadside cornucopia of roast corn, plantains, akara, suya from food vendors lining the night streets with large vats of oil, burning coal pits, aromas intoxicating and magical… My aunt sternly warned us not to stare at people because not everyone at the Night Market was ...
Fly Nigeria: A jade suite for Nigerian Independence Day.
The iconic West African magazine, Drum, which shuttered sometime in the ’80s, revived to take a look at Nigeria at 62.
An assortment of Party Animals. A few (some unvarnished) Midjourney character sketches.
Not to be outdone by her male counterpart, the First Lady of the Oceans also put in an appearance at the underwater terminal.
After centuries of rumored incarceration, the ocean god makes an appearance at the Atlantic Terminal.
I’ve been using the generative AI, Midjourney, to storyboard my film script. The scenes here are of my protagonist in repose. After a few realistic looking tries, I experimented with more stylised forms.
Polaroids of Mistress Erzulie and her cohort at the famed discothéque.