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Veils of Stone is my current studio installation, transforming debris into vessels of memory and repair. Cowrie shells cast from recycled glass sand collected during Rockaway shoreline cleanups, concrete chosen as both homage to my grandfather’s legacy as a Nigerian builder and as an ecological proposition recalling artificial reefs, and lapis lazuli anchor the work in both ancestral and environmental histories. Blocks echo the architecture of coastal communities in New York, Nigeria, the Caribbean, and across the global South — porous and patterned, filtering air and light along shorelines. A fractured ceramic anchor and chain rest at the foot of Osara (Yemoja Olósa), evoking the Orishas as metaphors for climate change, ocean ecology, and environmental health. By recasting one of the longest-lasting marine pollutants — glass — into new sculptural forms, the installation imagines rupture itself as a threshold where resilience and continuity take root.
From October 2 - 19,2025 select private studio visits are available as I conclude my artist residency at LMCC Arts Centre on Governors Island.