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Studio notes

A line that remembers.

Notes from the practice — not a magazine, only the thinking that sits beside the thread.

Loud Silence

2025

Every thread is placed with intention

Gradually building texture, depth, and emotion. Loud Silence was shown at the Life In My City Art Festival — a frozen scream held in hanging thread.

Loud Silence
The Ife Muse

2026

Marks that remember Ife

Inspired by the ancient Ife bronze heads, thread reinterprets facial markings so the past and the present sit in one portrait.

The Ife Muse
Stitched in Time

2025

Olójó, bàtá, time

Stitched in Time comes from the Olojo Festival in Ile-Ife — ancestral drum, street, and the spiritual weather of home.

Stitched in Time
The Weight of Words

2025

The library and the feed

A man in a private library, held by newsprint. The work is about media, solitude, and the psychological weight of staying informed.

The Weight of Words
Hands That Won’t Let Go

2026

Guidance, or grip

A violinist held by many hands. The line between care, inherited pressure, and the wish to play in one’s own name.

Hands That Won’t Let Go