Artist Statement

As an emerging artist out of Atlanta, Georgia, my work deals with printmaking, drawings, murals, and sculptural pieces. In my story Kweku Anansi Fables, my relief prints, clothing, costumes, and sculptural pieces depict a world through storytelling where Anansi the Spider's ancestors live in a futuristic society. This parallel dimension begins with West Africa's own indigenous African superhero Kweku Anansi. His secret alter ego is Amir Kweku, a brilliant geneticist living in the village of Akuu in the year 2035. Amir has developed a technique infusing spider's DNA with nano technology to create cybernetic spiders. Amir is accidentally bitten by a group of cybernetic spiders causing him to gain superpowers. It is up to this new superhero to go out into his village and defeat the power and might of the great evil spirit Osa from stealing stories from the history books before they cease to exist.