- CollegeCentral Saint Martins
- CourseBA (Hons) Product and Industrial Design
- Graduation year2023
"Ceremonial Artefact: Spirit Vessel": a fusion of symbolism and spirituality. This Vessel pays homage to the Shona, Bantu peoples' sacred rituals and the African/Caribbean diaspora, forging a dialogue to our ancestral heritage. Distinguished by its innovative design, the Spirit Vessel features a spherical base that intentionally employs instability/imbalance. This feauture symbolically represents the physical pouring gesture during the Ritual of Libation. The lid of the Vessel is made out of Rammed Earth collected from my local area of Islington, inspired by bioregionalism and localism whilst honouring African material culture. Complementing the Spirit Vessel is the captivating film 'No Shoes Inside.' This cinematic masterpiece offers an abstract and intimate exploration of auto-ethnographic research, delving into the concept of 'Collective Unconcious' and the modern interpretation of ancestral rituals.
Final work
SPIRIT Vessel
Creating an ethereal feeling through the use of collage. Implying that my vessel exists outside/independent of the physical realm.
SPIRIT Vessel: Hand Sculpted Version
Before articulating my design on 3D CAD softwares, I hand-built a model to understand and communciate the proportions and features of my design.
GIF (click me)
‘No Shoes Inside’ is a semi-autobiographical exploration of how people interact with the ideas of home, ancestral memory, and rituals through cinematic interpretation of the auto-ethnographic research conducted for my dissertation.
'No Shoes Inside' is set to release in Autumn 2023.
Research and process
Canon Collage
Questioning a canon through collage.
Dissertation Title Graphic
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SPIRIT (Libation) Vessel
"Ceremonial Artefact: Spirit Vessel": a fusion of symbolism and spirituality. This Vessel pays homage to the Shona, Bantu peoples' sacred rituals and the African/Caribbean diaspora, forging a dialogue to our ancestral heritage. Distinguished by its innovative design, the Spiri...
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