Adulphina
Imuede
My practice explores the relationship between the body and interior experience, with particular attention to the head as a site of consciousness, memory, and spiritual presence within African cosmological frameworks. I use the head as a recurring theme to consider how identity and interiority are held, shaped, and expressed through form. I am interested in the tension of the dual selves: the self presented and the self protected; what is revealed, what is withheld, and what exists in between. My figures often appear in states of stillness or trance, suggesting psychological and emotional interiority rather than fixed identity. My practice has expanded into ceramics, where material processes such as pressure, fragility, repetition, and transformation become central to meaning-making. These processes have encouraged my interest in how materials themselves participate in the communication of interior experience. I work across watercolour, acrylic, ink, oil, gouache, pastels, and clay, using both controlled and intuitive methods to explore texture, embodiment, and visual storytelling. Across all media, my work is guided by a desire to create spaces that hold complexity where memory, identity, and emotion can exist simultaneously without resolution.