The Book of Lagos
The autobiography of a city.
I think of everything I make as part of one book. Not a book with a beginning and an ending, but one made of different worlds, characters, families, gods, saints, sinners, paintings, and sculptures. Each body of work is a chapter. They do not happen in a neat order because cities do not either. People disappear and return. Stories overlap. Old things survive inside new ones. Myth and ordinary life sit next to each other. Lagos is the thing holding it all together.
The Brothers
III · ágụ · leopard
3 works
Three sons of Odùduwà. Aláàrá, Àjẹ́rọ̀, Ọ̀ràngún. Three brothers walked out from Ilé-Ifẹ̀ and each became a king of his own land. Three crowns from one root.
placeholder copy · data/copy.json
The chapters sit around ámá, a word for town, city, or community. There is no required order. Enter wherever you like.