My Palette Is a Bridge to the Unseen People often ask me why I choose certain colors again and again —the deep blues, the warm earth tones, the vibrant greens, the surreal golds. The truth is:I paint with memories, not just pigments. Growing up in Senegal, colors were never just colors.They were stories.They were rhythms.They […]
The Silence That Watches Back Owls fascinate me because they carry an entire world in their silence.Their stillness is not stillness — it’s awareness, intention, patience. When I started this painting, I wanted to capture that quiet intensity.Not the owl itself, but the feeling of being watched by something that understands more than it reveals. […]
Reflections from the making of my buffalo oil painting When I began this piece, I wasn’t thinking of buffaloes at all.I was thinking of movement — the kind that feels ancient, instinctive, almost spiritual. I remembered a moment from my childhood in Senegal:watching animals thunder toward the river at dusk, their silhouettes trembling in the […]