isura: Treasure of Gold

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 Gold

I began Treasure of Gold with a question about value: what makes one material precious and another ordinary?

 

As I worked with the Adire, I found myself remembering my mother wearing it. There was nothing in those memories that required the cloth to announce its value. The way she wore it, with a quiet dignity, was enough to make it feel precious to me.

That memory changed the question. I became less interested in gold simply as a colour or symbol of wealth and more interested in how value is assigned. Is something valuable because a market says so? Because it is rare? Because of our relationship with it?

 

The material itself does not necessarily have to change for the way we value it to change.

 

Treasure of Gold became a way of asking where worth actually resides—and whether some things become precious long before we have the language, or the market, to call them treasure.

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.

Acquisition

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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.