Title : 12.5 M

Medium: Oil sticks, acrylic paints, dyes, pencil, and pastels on found material

Dimensions: 6’ x 3’4”

Improvised on found material, this work layers figures, a fractured, divided Africa, and the haunting number 12.5 million — evoking the lives displaced during the transatlantic slave trade. The surface, already carrying its own history, becomes a stage where colonial power, cultural memory, and African identity collide. In this collision, the work asks how African identity might exist beyond European influence, asserting a vision that resists inherited dominance and claims its own psychic ground.