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A monthly drop of visual research, reference, and process. An evolving moodboard collecting different works, PERSONAL THROW AWAY PROJECT, UNFINISHED CONCEPTS and fragments across type design, architecture, and image-making. Unfiltered and unscripted—sketches, studies, textures, and moments that shape the practice. archived here for open exploration.

1. Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens
- Epictectus

Over time, my practice has expanded beyond the production of individual design works toward a broader cultural vision. I am interested in how design can operate not only as a service or visual output, but as a framework for building spaces of knowledge, exchange, and community. This long-term ambition imagines a multidisciplinary environment that brings together research, exhibitions, publishing, and everyday social life within a single ecosystem. The project I envision would function simultaneously as a research and learning center, gallery, design studio, and public gathering place. Alongside exhibitions and design work, it would include a small library or bookshop, a coffee space, and flexible rooms capable of hosting lectures, screenings, workshops, and collaborative programs. Such a space would allow design, art, and cultural research to coexist with daily activity, making creative inquiry part of an accessible public environment rather than an isolated institutional setting. While my practice is currently based in Vancouver, my long-term outlook remains deeply connected to the African continent, particularly the cultural landscapes of Central and Southern Africa where my personal history is rooted. The project imagines a structure that moves between geographies—drawing from networks built internationally while contributing to the development of local cultural infrastructures. Rather than beginning with a fixed institution, the idea grows organically from practice: through design work, collaborations, research, publications, and small-scale cultural initiatives. Over time these activities form the intellectual and community foundations that may eventually support a physical space dedicated to experimentation, learning, and the circulation of ideas. At its core, the vision is less about building a building and more about cultivating a platform—one where design, culture, and dialogue intersect, and where new forms of knowledge and creative practice can emerge.

A Sonic Dissertation on Congo Reality—a layered, immersive exploration of sound as a vessel for history, power, and imagination.

Take a moment. Hold your phone in your hand. Feel its weight—not just of metal and glass, but of history, labor, and extraction. The minerals inside it, the cobalt that powers its circuits, were likely pulled from the depths of the Congo, where men, women, and even children toil in mines carved into the earth. This sound essay is a meditation on that weight—on the distant echoes of pickaxes against stone, the hushed voices of miners navigating peril, the mechanical hum of factories thousands of miles away, assembling devices that will never know their origin. What do we hear when we listen beyond convenience? Who speaks when we press a button? Every vibration, every notification, carries an untold story. Will we choose to listen?

Artist in residence: serves as a visionary portal to creativity. In a dedicated realm, it transcends mere refuge—it's a living canvas for experiences, emotions, and untold narratives. The residency transforms into a cocoon, merging solitude and community, a space for artists to commune with their craft and navigate uncharted realms of the psyche. It's a microcosm of creativity, where diverse visions seamlessly synchronize. Within this crucible, artists boldly face challenges, shaping the residency into a laboratory for unfiltered self-expression Time bends to the artist's rhythm, each stroke, note, and word resounding—a permanent imprint on both space and the artist's metamorphosis.

Discover how design shapes what we see—and what we don’t. This video explores the hidden layers of typography, space, and perception in a way that makes you look twice.

Meschac Gaba's 'Museum of Contemporary African Art' is an immersive twelve-room installation, a 'museum within a museum', which is currently sprawling through Tate Modern. It includes its own shop, library and restaurant as well as less conventional museum spaces such as a Salon, Music Room and Art and Religion Room - where you can sit down to relax, play the piano or have your tarot cards read.

Gaba began working on the Museum of Contemporary African Art in 1997 during a residency in Amsterdam because he felt there was no space in Europe or Africa for the type of work he wished to make. As the work developed over several years and at various locations, Gaba also incorporated expressions of his own biography, including a Marriage Room containing photos, gifts and his wife's wedding dress from their marriage ceremony, which was conducted inside the museum. The Library also contains an audio work in which the artist imagines what his late father might say about his son's life.

The 'Museum of Contemporary African Art' is 'not a model...it's only a question', says Gaba. As much a conceptual space as a physical one, it stands as a provocation to the Western art establishment to attend to contemporary African art.