An exploration in myth and collagraphy as tools for excavating missing history. I am one Grafikens hus resident artist 2025. For my process I have taken over their temporary gallery and turned it into a studio.
A conversation with the late Belkis Ayón
The afrocuban Belkis Ayón made prints using collagraphy as a method to excavate and tell the untold history. Most of her works are about myths from the Abakua brotherhood. In this residency I write a letter to the artist telling her how seeing her art work “In Nlloro”, which translates to "weeping," changed the course of this residency and cemented my art practise in ways I have yet to understand.
An incorporation of the Bakongo people cosmology
During the second part of the residency, inspired by Belkis Ayón I turn to study a cosmology that may not directly have effected my world view (my family is christian,) but is formed from the languages my family speaks. Books about Congo cosmology details pre-colonial perspective of the Bantu peoples of the world.