Works

Fourteen bodies of work.

Movement

Past

Tracing Coptic and L3b1a East African lineages through Egypt. Recording the Essequibo river basin, Guyana. Igbo and Yoruba ancestral sites, Nigeria. DNA, bone, soil, mineral. The matter that carries decisions forward across generations.

I · Past

L3b1a: "These people were my relatives, my ancestors. And this place could be my refuge"

Ink and mixed media on an 1897 world atlas page, viewed through 1899, the year after William Gladstone's death · 74cm x 62cm · 2023

Commissioned and acquired by the Gladstone family, now in their collection at the Temple of Peace, Hawarden Castle.

Commissioned for the Temple of Peace, William Gladstone's own library at Hawarden Castle, this piece traces a maternal ancestral line from Egypt to Guyana, where Gladstone's father held sugar plantations, deliberately crossing two family histories on the same map. Each marked country carries a fact from 1899. This is the piece where the question first appeared: What type of ancestor do you want to be? Part of the Cartography Is Not Home series, and its origin point.

I · Past

Before the Map: Ancestral Cosmologies, 1897 to Now

Ink, acrylic paint, and pencil on antique celestial atlas · 2026

This 1897 star chart decided which constellations deserved names. Nine points across it mark where an ancestral sky-tradition and a modern AI language project name the same place, sometimes in agreement, sometimes in open contradiction. Oshumare, the Yoruba rainbow serpent, stretches across both hemispheres, arriving in dream rather than research. Part of the Cartography Is Not Home series.

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I · Past

L3b1a + D4b1a2: Original Instructions

Mixed media · gold thread on original atlas page · 2025–2026 · From the series The Ritual of Inherited Code

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A 1897 North Polar Regions atlas page. Gold thread connects every leyline through the centre, through 90°N, through L3b1a + D4b1a2, through the two haplogroups separated by 60,000 years of divergence that share a single East African maternal ancestor. Haiti, Guyana, Congo, Sudan, Palestine, Bangladesh, Western Sahara. Arrhenius's 1896 climate warning in the artist's hand at the top. CO₂ then: 295 parts per million. CO₂ now: 420. The thread does not radiate outward from a source. It passes through, accumulating at the centre with each pass. As DNA passes through generations. As mycelium passes through soil.

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Water Connects Us to Our Ancestors' Dreams

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I · Past

Water Connects Us to Our Ancestors' Dreams

Mixed media · 2023

Commissioned by Charity:Water for their fundraising auction

A tale of colonialism, capitalism, and climate change. Water as memory. Water as contested territory. Water as the medium through which ancestral intelligence travels forward in time.

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I · Past

Undulating Memories: Echoes of Yemọja

Mixed media · 2023

Sold to a private collector

Yemọja — Yoruba orisha of water, motherhood, and the living world. The undulation of memory across bodies of water and bodies of flesh. What the ocean carries that the archive cannot.

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I · Past

Whispers of the Ancestral Dream

Mixed media · 2023

Sold to a private collector

The dream as carrier of ancestral intelligence. What surfaces when the waking mind is still enough to listen.

Series note

Cartography Is Not Home

A map is not a description of a place. It is a decision about a place, made somewhere else, by someone who was not from there.

I work on genuine antique atlas pages. Late nineteenth century, mostly. The years when the lines were being drawn hardest. I do not reproduce them and I do not print onto them. The sheet I mark is the sheet that was made then, which means the violence and the beauty are in the same object, and I cannot separate them.

Each work in this series has one rule. It has to hold a line to something that is happening now.

Not a historical illustration. Not a lament for what was done. A live wire between the map and the present, running through whatever is currently being fought over: a border, a language, a seabed, a cable, a body, a claim. If a work cannot carry that line, it does not enter the series.

So the atlas page is not the subject. It is the evidence.

We are not in a technological crisis. We are in a listening crisis. What becomes possible when we remember that intelligences are entangled and animate?

Movement

Present

Birdsong as visible wave. Spider webs as sonic instruments. Dew as lens.

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II · Present

Entangled Imaginations / Earth Echoes

Sound · 2023

In collaboration with Friends of the Earth. The voices of the living world translated into forms human bodies can receive. The earth has been speaking. This is a listening practice. 3 minutes 13 seconds.

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II · Present

Dystopian Dreams, Electronic Graves

Mixed media · 2021

An immersive sonic exploration of how we imagine the future — and whose imagination is centred. The dystopia is not a warning. It is a description of the present. 10 minutes 31 seconds.

II · Present

The Myth of the Ego

Sound · 2020

The ego as the structure that mistakes intelligence for possession. A sonic investigation into what dissolves when the myth releases its grip. Twenty-three minutes and forty-four seconds of undoing.

II · Present

Symbiotic Symphonies

Multisensory performance · co-produced and co-hosted · 2024 · The Future is Sound, Alexandra Palace Theatre

Sound as humanity's earliest form of communication, returned to. A live multisensory gathering exploring the symbiotic relationship between sound, technology, and the living world. Regenerative soundscapes, digital naturalism, ancestral futurism, and urban sense-scaping, brought together on one stage. Co-produced with Jimmy Kyriacou and Future Sound, in its fifth year.

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II · Present

Synaesthesia – AEIOU

Acrylic on cotton canvas · 30 × 40 cm · 2021

From the series The Brainbows. I restarted embodied vocal coaching with Moon Fool, singing AEIOU as a scale. I painted while I sang. This is the result.

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Series note

The Brainbows

Brainbow is a neuroscience technique. Individual neurons are tagged with fluorescent proteins in random ratios of red, green and blue, so that each one shows up in its own distinct colour against its neighbours. Around a hundred hues. It was developed in 2007 by Jeff Lichtman and Joshua Sanes, and it let scientists see the architecture of a neural circuit for the first time.

What I keep returning to is that the colour is not assigned. It is stochastic. Random. The researchers cannot choose which neuron becomes which colour. They can only make the conditions, and then look at what arrives.

That is how these were made. I did not decide where the paint would land.

The heart has its own neurons. Not a metaphor, an anatomical fact. A dense cluster of them, capable of sensing and remembering, wired into the brain but not governed by it. So when people say they made something from the heart, I am not sure it is only a figure of speech.

These paintings are what my nervous system looked like on the days I made them. Thrown, not composed. Each one a circuit lit up in its own colour.

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Movement

Future

The place where what is grown and what is built collapse into each other.

III · Future

Life is Art: Kinship in the Age of Cyborgs

Immersive · ongoing

What does kinship look like when the boundaries between biological and digital are no longer fixed? Cyborg Shamanism as a practice of belonging across categories. The future of relation.

III · Future

Medusa: The Transformation

Immersive · ongoing

Medusa not as monster but as portal. Radical transformation as the condition of the future. What becomes possible when the thing that was weaponised against you becomes the source of your power.

III · Future

Cartography Is Not Home

Research practice · ongoing

Soil, DNA, sound, algorithms. Four intelligences, one pattern. Field recording in Egypt, Guyana, Nigeria. Sonification. An installation, eventually. Private, primary, ongoing. The future the research is pointing toward.