My practice spans ceramics, performance, and mixed media, grounded in an exploration of identity, migration, and cultural memory. I investigate how cultural identities are carried, reshaped, and rebuilt as individuals move across geographies and social contexts. Informed by Cultural Identity theory, I approach identity as fluid and negotiated—formed through shared symbols, values, and relational belonging—positioning my studio practice as an ongoing dialogue between personal history and collective memory. My work accentuates and emphasizes the physical and emotional imprints of movement, attending to what is picked up, what is left behind, and what endures.
Clay anchors my practice through its malleability, material memory, and symbolic connection to land. Its capacity to be broken down, reclaimed, re-formed, and re-fired mirrors the cycles of becoming, un-becoming, and re-becoming that shape diasporic and migratory identities. My sculptural forms draw from West African visual languages—deeply textured surfaces and modular interpretations of Krobo bead structures—scaled and reconfigured to reference architecture, the body, and emotional terrain. Repetition and assemblage operate as cultural markers, holding communal meaning while allowing space for personal reinterpretation. I understand these forms as “cultural vessels of carriage”, objects that bear memory, movement, and identity across shifting geographies and lived experiences.
Surface processes such as crawl glazes, lava textures, and expressive color serve as emotional registers, revealing layers of pressure, rupture, healing, and renewal. Their irregularities echo the instability and resilience that accompany cultural transformation. I further integrate reclaimed bicycle parts as metaphors for movement and visual cues from African mud-house traditions, grounding the work in an earthy aesthetic that reflects both inherited knowledge and contemporary reimagining.
Through these material and conceptual strategies, my studio practice examines the reconstruction of cultural identity—negotiating the tension between continuity and change, inherited tradition and evolving environments. As an international artist living between worlds, my work functions as a vessel for memory and a site of negotiation, where fragments of the past are reassembled into new configurations of self. I invite viewers to reflect on how identity is continually built and rebuilt, shaped by movement, place, and the relationships we form across shifting geographies and communities.