Throughout my life, I’ve been exploring the question, ‘What does it mean to be an African?’ Affirming the core of African power within myself and others permeates everything I do and represent. My objects and installations at once draw upon my history and simultaneously comment on the present. I have embraced mixed media processes to express and explore ideas regarding the richness of African history and pressing contemporary concerns addressing where we come from, where we are, and where we are going.

I use mixed media installation to create a space that allows for open dialogue between the audience and the space utilizing some elements of Ghanaian culture and the human hand as a tool to explore the idea of what it means to be an African. As a concerned artist, I see, feel, analyze, and make work to examine these realities. I am influenced as an artist by what I have been through since childhood, recollecting the memories and experiences throughout my life. At the same time, I elaborate on why they are significant to me specifically. Therefore, I make installations that link the past, present, and future for Ghanaians.

I want my work to draw audiences to experience the richness of some aspects of African culture and their relevance to our contemporary world. I desire to make sculptural installations that communicate ideas to make viewers recognize that what people think they know is not always the whole truth.

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