I am a painter whose work investigates the shadow as a metaphorical and metaphysical entity—expressing what is hidden, suppressed, or spiritually present. Through my practice, I use the Indigenous aesthetics of the Igbo people of Nigeria, particularly Uli symbolism, to reimagine silenced local knowledge systems by colonialism.

The shadow in my work becomes a site of energy and ancestral presence. It embodies the duality of existence—visible and invisible, body and spirit, past and present, and suppressed cultural knowledge systems reimagined on this site. My paintings seek to make the unseen or forgotten visible, engaging the viewer’s senses and their sense of history.

By merging native aesthetics with contemporary art expression, I challenge the Eurocentric art framework and assert a contemporary African perspective grounded in indigenous philosophies. My work is a personal exploration and a cultural reclamation—bridging the seen and unseen, the physical and the metaphysical, the now and the ancestral.