Ìnù mí dùn, 2025 

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Textile, Installation, Ceramic, Sculpture, Poetry

Materials (agbalumo skin, kan kan sponge, terracotta clay, vitreous enamel powder, copper metal, batik textile wax resist print on canvas fabric)

Ìnù mí dùn (I am Happy | My insides are sweet | My inner self is glad) is an exploration of memory, pleasure and ethno-botanical research through play and material tactility, activated by the sensuality of West African fruit Agbalumo (African Star Apple, Udara, Agwaluma, Alasa) and presented across natural fibres, textile, ceramics, metal and poetry.

Thus far, Ìnù mí dùn has manifested as an archival assemblage of dehydrated agbalumo fruit skin fibres, terracotta clay sculptures, wax-resist batik on cotton textile, kan kan sponge fibres, kiln-cast vitreous enamel glass tiles, silversmithed copper enamelled sculpture and narrated audio poetry accompanied by the documentation of the project's research production process from its inception in 2021.

As a project Ìnù mí dùn was curated to allow experiential learning through touch and oral storytelling, depicted through the craftsmanship and sensuality of objects that are visceral illustrations of the ‘familiar;’ demonstrated across ongoing research in memory, ancestral futures and materials in ethnobotanical contexts. 

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