Art in Motion

In Collaboration with Jungle Colours, 1 Artist and 15 Poets.

Chuma Anagbado, Bunmi Africa, Yemi Blaq, Stacey Ravvero, Paul Word, Ella Fortté, Ọbáfẹ́mi Thanni, Chinelo Akwaeke, Boye Longe, Ugo Benitez, Siza Amah, Hamda ‘Koya, Bura-Bura Nwilo, Alimat Adesola, Segun Obende & Martin Arinze

Animation by Olisa

Performative. Transformative. A re-imagination of a rich traditional past.

Masked is a fusion of art, poetry, music, chant and movement, performed by contemporary creatives from Africa resulting in 100 distinct expressions imbued with deep cultural meanings transcending human generations.The collection is a collaboration between 1 Artist and 15 poets, resulting in 100 NFTs steeped in the cultures of Africa, its history and in the world’s present.

The NFTs are hand drawn, digitally painted & animated illustrations reminiscent of and inspired by the age long curvilinear ‘Uli’ art form of Igbo ethnicity from Africa. The collections art is a visual expression of lines and colours couched in revolving layers of subliminal performance. It is a renaissance of an art expression that has always been part of the artists composition and mandate. Masked re-imagines and presents the mask-wearing culture found across Africa to a larger audience: the Web3 space.

View NFTs HERE

A symbol of ancestral wizardry, both spiritually and physically.

"100 hand drawn, digitally painted & animated illustrations reminiscent of the age long curvilinear Uli representational motif of Igbo ethnicity from Africa. "

A Back Story.

Masked re-imagines and presents the mask-wearing culture found across Africa to a larger audience: the Web3 space. The collection is a visual expression of lines and colours dipped from an artists moments of fear and despair, hopelessness and hope, fate and faith couched in revolving layers of subliminal performance. It is a renaissance of an art expression that has always been part of the artists composition and mandate. The Artist did not just come out of the isolation stronger but also literarily took the ‘mask on’. Masked is the showing of a collaborative outcome between one (1) Artist and fifteen (15) Poets, all contemporary practicing creatives.