Supernal Beauty
Supernal Beauty is an ongoing body of work rooted in the visual language of the Sandé tradition of Sierra Leone. Through sculptural paintings, fiber-based works, and material assemblage, the series explores beauty as a form of knowledge, encoded through gesture, adornment, and ritual. Drawing from ancestral forms while remaining firmly contemporary, the work considers how cultural memory is carried, protected, and reimagined across time.
SOWO l
2024
Sculptural painting on chiffon
Yarn, velvet, jute, cowrie shells,
watercolor, ink, charcoal
60 x 70 in / 152.4 x 177.8 cm
SOWO ll
2025
Sculptural painting on chiffon
Yarn, velvet, jute, cowrie shells,
watercolor, ink, charcoal
40 x 40 in / 101.6 x 101.6 cm
SOWO Vl
2025
Sculptural painting on chiffon
Yarn, velvet, jute, leather, suede,
beads, watercolor, ink, crayon
60 x 70 in / 152.4 x 177.8 cm
Supernal Beauty — Watercolors
The watercolors function as an intimate, reflective extension of the Supernal Beauty series, holding gesture, rhythm, and memory in a more intimate and fluid register.
SOWO l.l
2025
Watercolor on paper
31 x 23 in.
SOWO lll.l
2025
Watercolor on paper
31 x 23 in.
SOWO lV.l
2025
Watercolor on paper
31 x 23 in.
Supernal Beauty- Prints
The prints extend the Supernal Beauty series through repetition and variation, allowing the visual language to circulate while retaining its symbolic and material integrity.
Printed with Caira Art Editions
Sowei (Mask) XI a
2025
monotype printed in blue/black
signed in pencil and dated, titled
sheet: 31 x 22 in.
Sowei (Mask) XI b
2025
pochoir monotype printed in blue/black
signed in pencil and dated, titled
sheet: 31 x 22 in.
Sowei (Mask) III a
2025
monotype printed in brown/black
signed in pencil and dated, titled
sheet: 31 x 22 in.
Sowei (Mask) III b
2025
pochoir monotype printed in brown/black
signed in pencil and dated, titled
sheet: 31 x 22 in.
Gnawa
Gnawa is a continuing exploration rooted in the ritual music and spiritual lineage of Gnawa culture, translating rhythm, repetition, and collective memory across paintings, sculptures, and textiles through gesture, structure, and material weight.
LE FORM BLEU 1
2022
Strips of leather, round reed, flat reed, braided leather wrapped wire
34 x 26 x 27 in. / 86.36 x 66.04 x 68.58cm
LILA
2022
Jute, natural round reed, leather cord, copper mesh, antique Touareg leather cord
36 x 21 x9 in. / 91.44 x 53.34 x 28.86 cm
Fulbe
Fulbe is a sustained investigation informed by Fulani cultural codes of restraint, dignity, and continuity. Through sculptural form, and material presence, the work explores how identity is carried through quiet authority, repetition, and care.
FULBE WANSAN
2019
Calabash, leather, suede
13 x 10 x 16 in. / 33 x 25 x 41 cm
FULBE POUKÉ
2019
Calabash, leather, suede
11 x 11 x 23 in. / 28 x 27 x 58 cm
Textiles function as a connective material language across the practice, carrying pattern, rhythm, and cultural memory through fiber. These works extend the studio’s visual worlds into wearable and domestic forms, maintaining the same restraints, material intelligence, and quiet authority as the sculptural and painted work.
