isura: Treasure of What Remains

Year:                 2026

Materials:        Adire and Coffee-dyed textile on canvas

Dimension:     107 x 107 cm (42 x 42 in)

Status:             Available

Unique Original / One of a kind

Includes a signed Certificate of Authenticity

About the ișura: Treasure of What Remains

I made this work with heavily eroded, coffeedyed textiles and torn adire. It connects to post-colonial theories of loss and survival, and the enduring physical marks left on Black identity through generations of systemic change.

 

I am interested in the beauty of worn edges, stains, and repairs, particularly in relation to the persistence of memory after loss or displacement. Because what survives oppression and the passage of time is far more powerful than what was originally broken.

 

Perhaps this work is asking us to see scars and stains of history differently, shifting our view away from the scars towards that which stubbornly survives.

 

Material / Process

Coffee is used here as a staining material rather than simply as an image or reference. I work the coffee-dyed textile together with Adire through cutting, layering and bonding onto canvas. The process allows colour, stain, pattern and surface to build the work physically, while tea and coffee enter the work in different ways: one through remembered ritual, the other also as material.

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Print Edition

Limited-edition canvas print, unstretched, in a series of 20 copies.

Dimensions: 20(W) x 20(H) inches

Canvas

Price: £195

Unstretched canvas, shipped. securely in a tube.

Custom print sizes are available as well

The total edition consists of 20 printed pieces.