DESCRIPTION: Reclaimed gold mining carpet with dried clay, gold residue and natural wear.
This is part of a 2024 series of carpet works. I aim to spark a conversation about the attack on our ecological wellbeing as a society. A carpet expected to be used in homes, hotels etc for comfort ends up being repurposed to destroy the ecological systems without any sustainable way to protect the flora and fauna.
TITLE: Organic Trails
YEAR: 2024
SIZE: 90” x 60”
MEDIUM: Reclaimed gold-mining carpet with dried clay, dirty engine oil. gold residue and natural wear.
DESCRIPTION: This is part of a 2024 series of carpet works. I aim to spark a conversation about the attack on our ecological wellbeing as a society. A carpet expected to be used in homes, hotels etc for comfort ends up being repurposed to destroy the ecological systems without any sustainable way to protect the environment
TITLE: Folded Misery
YEAR: 2024
SIZE: 40” x 40” x 30”
DESCRIPTION: Reclaimed gold-mining carpet with dried clay, dirty engine oil. gold residue and natural wear.
This is part of a 2024 series of carpet works. I aim to spark a conversation about the attack on our ecological wellbeing as a society. A carpet expected to be used in homes, hotels etc for comfort ends up being repurposed to destroy the ecological systems without any sustainable way to protect the flora and fauna.
TITLE: Dream Land
YEAR: 2024
SIZE: 60” x 40”
DESCRIPTION: Reclaimed synthetic carpet, collected from illegal mining site.
These folds depicts a dreamland and a clear opposite of what the land looks today.
This is part of a 2024 series of carpet works. I aim to spark a conversation about the attack on our ecological wellbeing as a society. A carpet expected to be used in homes, hotels etc for comfort ends up being repurposed to destroy the ecological systems without any sustainable way to protect the flora and fauna.
TITLE: Worn Yet Alive II
YEAR: 2023
SIZE: 50” x 50”
DESCRIPTION: Reclaimed synthetic carpet, collected from illegal mining site.
This carpet depicts the gradually dying land.
This is part of a 2023 series of carpet works. I aim to spark a conversation about the attack on our ecological wellbeing as a society. A carpet expected to be used in homes, hotels etc for comfort ends up being repurposed to destroy the ecological systems without any sustainable way to protect the flora and fauna.
TITLE: Repurposed echoes II
YEAR: 2024
SIZE: 50” x 50”
DESCRIPTION: Reclaimed carpet with embedded dried clay and traces of gold residues.
This is part of a 2024 series of carpet works. I aim to spark a conversation about the attack on our ecological wellbeing as a society. A carpet expected to be used in homes, hotels etc for comfort ends up being repurposed to destroy the ecological systems without any sustainable way to protect the flora and fauna.
TITLE : Tales and dreams
YEAR: 2024
MEDIUM : Reclaimed carpet from an illegal mining site
TITLE: Unfolded tales
YEAR : 2022
SIZE: 40” x 30”
DESCRIPTION: Dried clay mud, gold residue on carpet.
Collected from an illegal mining site in Bogoso, Ghana, where carpets are used in gold washing processes and later discarded.
This is part of a 2023 series of carpet works. I aim to spark a conversation about the attack on our ecological wellbeing as a society.
TITLE: Worn Yet Alive I
YEAR: 2024
SIZE: 100” x 50”
DESCRIPTION: Reclaimed gold-mining carpet with dried clay, gold residue and natural wear.
It underscores the intersection between destruction and renewal.
TITLE: Woven Narratives
YEAR: 2024
SIZE: 60” x 50”
DESCRIPTION: Mixed Media (African fabric pieces and Painting)
The is part of an ongoing series of works to spark environmental conversations about what we throw away and how indiscriminately disposing these items end up hurting the environment.
By repurposing these African fabrics in my art, i aim to spark the conversation of what is waste and what is not.
TITLE: Tales and dreams
YEAR: 2024
SIZE: 60” x 45”
DESCRIPTION: Reclaimed synthetic carpet, collected from illegal mining site.
Collected from an abandoned illegal mining site in Bogoso, Ghana, where carpets are used in gold washing processes and later discarded.
This is part of a 2024 series of carpet works. I aim to spark a conversation about the attack on our ecological wellbeing as a society. A carpet expected to be used in homes, hotels etc for comfort ends up being repurposed to destroy the ecological systems without any sustainable way to protect the flora and fauna.
TITLE: Untouched dreams
YEAR: 2023
SIZE: 60” x 50”
DESCRIPTION: Reclaimed carpet with no sign of physical wear.
Collected from an illegal mining site in Bogoso, Ghana.
The view exposes the viewer to the beauty of what ends up in tatters.
TITLE: Erosion of time
YEAR: 2023
SIZE: 40” x 40”
DESCRIPTION: Reclaimed carpet with green moss-like textures and remnants of environmental degradation
Collected from an illegal mining site in Bogoso, Ghana. The worn patches and layered details reflect the tension between decay and regeneration
These natural happenings to the carpet is a depiction of the damage caused and how the land is fighting back.
This is part of a 2023 series of carpet works. I aim to spark a conversation about the attack on our ecological wellbeing as a society.
TITLE: Echoes of misery
YEAR: 2023
SIZE: 60” x 50”
DESCRIPTION: Reclaimed carpet with embedded dried clay and traces of gold residues.
Collected from an illegal mining site in Bogoso, Ghana. Ones utilized in the gold-washing process, the carpet retains layers of dried clay and little residue of gold.
This piece challenges the viewer to confront the interception of industry, sustainability and waste.