Nature has its own way of balancing books (2026)

Water holds memory. I was chosen to create a large-scale mural in the heart of Elmina. It is a town with rich traditions, a big fisher community in the present and with a very complex colonial past… the water has always been there. Witnessing arrival and departure, trade and violence, kinship broken and remade across the diaspora.

I wanted to use this opportunity to make a statement. I designed an image of giant waves swallowing colonial ships. Not as speculation, but as a historic correction.

Together with an amazing gang of young local painters, led by Kingbell and Mister Serious, we brought the vision to life. They trusted the design, pushed the energy, and made the process joyful, alive, and powerful.

As we were working, the water turned from a witness of history, into a judge. And maybe that is what we became too. Cause at the end the guys were shouting: sink the ships, sink the ships, sink the ships.  

We have become like the waves. Remembering. Restoring. Balancing the books.

p.s

What makes this especially meaningful is that I was told several people put my name forward as someone who would be a strong fit for this residency. Thank you to everyone who recommended me, spoke my name in the right (online) rooms, or thought of me for this opportunity. Shout out to Nana Ankomah, the Edina traditional council, Lemon Beach Resort and the Royal Dutch Embassy in Ghana.