The Expressionist's Manifesto.

Part Art, part alchemy.  © 2010, The Expressionist - All Rights Reserved. 

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The Curious Case of Rhythm. - we don’t run from demons; we dance with them.

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EAUSENOON for Fashion Envie 2016

Photo + Direction: The Expressionist.

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The Curious Case of Rhythm. - we don’t run from demons; we dance with them.

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the fall.

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Sunset song.

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A Song for Summer, by The Expressionist.

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- Home Peace I, II, III, by The Expressionist.

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The Warming Series (2013-2016) -- identity research photo project by Teff (the don/the expressionist). This project was designed to capture and document the journey and process of getting reacquainted with her home, Nigeria. The idea of The Warming Series, since its inception in 2013, quickly revealed how tasking the process would be. There were a number of hurdles that proved equally demanding, but none compared to burden attributed to the loss of her grandmothers. She lost both to illness. Neither saw nor had knowledge of whom she came to be, nor the matured sound of her voice, her laughter, her cry. 

The Warming Series sets out to examine how she sees herself in relation to her Home--what it was, and what it has transformed into in her absence, as well as how her grandmothers would see her, had they been alive upon her return. The project also serves to examine the concept of home--the creation and recreation of it--an aspect she believes will find resonance in children of (im)migrants like herself.

In the future, she hopes to extend this form of identity research to individuals who share narratives similar to hers--migrant children who left home and for circumstances beyond their control, did not return until mid-to-late adulthood.

[She is photoed here in a wrapper (form of traditonal dress) that once donned the hips of her mother in the compound of her Home in Abuja.]

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6 July, 2015: Editorial for KAHKTI capsule collection. Production: AKU. Photos + Art direction: The Expressionist. Assistance: Jennifer, of Beau Monde Society.

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+/- Pattern and pulse, by The Expressionist.

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+/- Excerpts from Coldest Water on the Block, by The Expressionist.

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+/- We test the Waters. Then we become Them, by The Expressionist.

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+/- Our truths, then, are by far our only possessions.

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+/- We have no beginning, no end, by The Expressionist.

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+/- Dear Summer, by The Expressionist.

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+/- Imaginary lines, by The Expressionist.

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+/- Theory IV.