~~statement 🕸

being an agbèrò & poet underneath it all, i work across      form^{(sometimes unknowingly destroying it to reformulate it.)}

i dwell with experience—
knife it, knife time,      
   to unfurl bodily & psychic wounds laying within marginalized histories, within survival,
        and/or beauty, pleasure, ecstasy. 

up sometimes at 3AM thinking about the art of experience and the experience of art.    
i embrace trans~spiriting—a practice, poetics & soaked living mediated by yorùbá cosmology,

                              an erotics

                   both vast and alive—       

WILD /  UNBOUND & WAYWARD /          MANYTONGUED      /FRAGMENTED COHESION  
                             IN RELATION

w/ processes in  REVERSAL

            & wet engines SPIRALLING

into FURTHEST FAR REACHING IDYLLS:

    liberation & bloodtheories🩸 LOCATED IN THE BLOOD🧬 and outside of it,

     powrd  by  KNOTTY FUNK      
4rm   DESTITUTE LUXURIOUS!  UNABASHEDLY BLACKQUEERISH.
    
                     the work pouring out

can be very CHILL or very naughty, can be the water’s salve or siren...

                           tho 4 sure       it’s altogether rhythm-ing, altering

for a regenerative spiritbody  ^{(= is you seeing?!!!  & did youR cells see too?!!)}
                         as hybrids, these material scraps: the lyric, choreopoems or “artworks”
r fruits of wet play💦  externalising landscapes of survival and the continuous pursuit of liberation. 🗝

ashewo wey dey hustle(2021-2022)“In Fusées (1945), French poet Charles Baudelaire posed the question “What is art?” and answered with a single word: “Prostitution.”

There’s of course the ever present issue of commodification that every art and working artists face, as this opinion expresses—

“Fraser took Baudelaire answers up a notch; she literalizes the metaphor of the artist as prostitute, though only for one short night, in order to embody the transactional, intimate, and exploitative quality of buying and selling in the art market.” [1]  It is not lost on me that of the first two artworks that sold stateside, one was erotic.