I am a fashion designer turned textile artist. Whilst design has provided for a personal introspective exploration through my career as a fashion designer, art has given me a platform for a more public dialogue.

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I am building  "koaka collective", an amalgamation of interdisciplinary projects with community, compassion and culture at its core. Through the community initiative “the small town project”, and working with the women in my community, I recognize the significance of the act of patchwork, quilting, and upcycling, as an expression of a quiet revolution and cultural permanence used to tell subaltern narratives.
 

Over the years textile waste has not only become my primary choice of medium, finding its way into design and art alike, it also has become the subject matter that I want to study and explore. It is the area of contention with its deep rooted cultural, environmental, and social consequences faced specifically by the women in the global south.

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Through my play with the material, I have come to realize that textile waste also offers itself as a metaphor to the study of the  hangover and the leftovers of colonial ideology and its cultural, environmental and social consequences, which dictates my research that explores the themes of subaltern memory, cultural identity and craft sustainability.