Collection 03 · Concept collection

Tender Nerves, Lagos

What happens when everyone is braced to be misunderstood?

Three works about Nigerian Gen Z, social hypervisibility, guarded intimacy, changing expectations, and the fear of softening first. Lagos appears through colour, pattern, posture, and pressure rather than tourist shorthand.

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Everything Feels Personal, two Nigerian women in a textured purple and rust interior divided by a bright green fractured line
Collection concept, 2026. AI-assisted mixed-media direction.
Work 01

Everything Feels Personal

Two women sit close enough to connect, yet anticipation has already built a fracture between them. A conversation has not failed. It has barely begun.

Visual direction: oil, vine charcoal, indigo wax-resist, and raw linen.

The materials are visual references for this concept image. This is not a photograph of a physical painting.

The Room Flinched First, Nigerian women in a deep indigo room reacting around a small suspended feather
Collection concept, 2026. AI-assisted mixed-media direction.
Work 02

The Room Flinched First

A feather has not landed, but the room and everyone inside it have already braced. Judgement arrives before evidence. The smallest signal becomes a full social weather system.

Visual direction: monotype, oil stick, charcoal, and sparse wax-resist textile on paper.

The materials are visual references for this concept image. This is not a photograph of a physical print.

No One Wants to Be Wrong, two Nigerian figures built from torn paper, textile, rust, blue, and plum shapes
Collection concept, 2026. AI-assisted mixed-media direction.
Work 03

No One Wants to Be Wrong

Two people construct themselves into opposing positions, each waiting for the other to soften first. The argument becomes armour. Being understood starts to matter less than not losing.

Visual direction: torn painted paper, graphite, matte acrylic, thread, and textile fragments.

The materials are visual references for this concept image. This is not a photograph of a physical collage.

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