Originality is a myth I no longer chase. Everything I create is a response to life as it unfolds around and within me. My work rises from lived realities, from assumptions, from fragments of memory that surface unrestrained. Often, my unconscious and subconscious do the choosing before I am even aware. They guide my hands, my gestures, my mark-making. Each piece is shaped by more than the present- it carries the sediments of what has been and the longing for what might come.

Katherine Howell Weingart '61 Civic Innovation Pavillion The time preparing for the relocation of my studio from the Torpedo Factory Art Center back to Lagos has distracted me from sharing the beautiful memories of an epic moment in my stay in the United States of America. Through the purchase and donation of 2 of my paintings by Steve Howell, I was connected to this outpost university that seems so much like the America of many migrants’ dreams. The purchase led to an invita