My practice begins from contact.
Working with clay and elemental materials through a process-led approach, I allow form to emerge through accretion, pressure, collapse, and repair, growing from the inside outward rather than from a predetermined idea. The material and my intention shape each other as I work. What results is a record of that exchange, not imposition.
Cavities become the generative core over time, shaping everything around them through pressure, containment, and release. Surfaces carry marks drawn from Aroko, a Yoruba communication system in which contextual arrangement transfers meaning through pattern and relation, encoding tonal language, numerical structure, and material memory simultaneously. The marks carry meaning for those who can read them and carry rhythm and presence for those who cannot. Both are intended.
This way of working is grounded in African epistemological frameworks, particularly Yoruba systems where knowledge lives in formation, transformation, and relation. Ambiguity is intelligence. Meaning is not fixed or singular. It is processual, located in the conditions of making and the encounter that follows.
What results are forms that shift across bodily, geological, spiritual, and organic registers without settling. That indeterminacy is structural, not incidental. The work does not seek resolution. It stays open, completing itself through encounter, leaving room for wonder and the quiet transformation that happens between what was and what is yet to come.
