My memories resonate with the vibrant African fabrics of my childhood. In this body of works, I examine the history and iconography of classic and modern African cloth with its unique and colorful ornament behind which lurks the anguish of colonialism. I invent my own patterns, an autobiographic iconography based on childhood memories and personal traumas.

I paint each line and image, intensive crafting which is diametrically opposite to practices of industrial cloth printing. The color seeps into the Xuan paper on which I work, its tactility akin to fabric. During this transformation, the pattern I devised is distorted and obscured behind black ink stains, faded and hidden like my memories. 

This series has been incorporated into the exhibition "Unfurled Folds" and is ongoing as more memories surface and I design new fabrics.