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Two of my works, Equilibrium and Animguaseɛ (Shame), were selected for their resonance with the curatorial vision. Together, they engage water as both a stage and a witness:

Equilibrium (Photographic Portrait, 2024)

“Equilibrium” explores Africa’s vulnerability during global health and ecological crises. A lone figure stands by the restless sea, wearing a nebulizer mask connected to a globe marked ‘AFRICA’. His still gaze bears the weight of global neglect. While the West secures breath, Africa inhales scarcity.

Here, water is not backdrop but symbol: the ocean, a timeless body of both trade and trauma, frames a moment of imbalance and quiet desperation. Through stark symbolism and minimalist framing, this work asks who gets to breathe freely and who pays the price when the world turns away.

Animguaseɛ (Shame) (Conceptual Portrait, 2025)
“Animguaseɛ,” meaning “shame” in Akan, confronts the emotional violence of silence and erasure. The figure’s face is bound in gauze, with a mirror or music score imposed where identity should be, reflecting not individuality but repetition, performance, or control.
At the chest, a burning book, knowledge, legacy, or dignity, flares upward, lit by another hand, a gesture of complicity and historical betrayal. Set against the blurred sea, water becomes a silent witness, a repository of suppressed narratives and forgotten wounds.

This work asks: What happens when stories are muted, rewritten, or consumed by fire?

Together, these pieces use water as a connective force, part memory, part warning. They ask viewers to listen to the stories carried in its depths and to imagine futures where communities are nourished, not diminished, by the most essential element of life.

For me, participating in Wellspring is a way of offering both testimony and resistance, situating water as a medium of survival, memory, and justice.