Inspiration:

Sugarcane: Structure and form in the natural world.

Tribe: Andropogoneae.



For many centuries through the engineering of the African slave trade on both sides of the Atlantic, the extraction and exploitation of this robust crop - 'the CRACK of its day' - helped to cause worldwide trauma for society. At its core, the structural form of sugar cane appears fragile and abstract...



This collection is a visual symbol of love to the ‘Abstract Molasses’, African society, her diaspora, and the many by-products of sugarcane e.g. bagasse, molasses, and rum; and is infused throughout with the essence and vitality of Nyabinghi.