Roots & Flowers
“Preserving cultural roots while challenging divisive customs.”
Roots & Flowers
Edmonton • Nigeria
Painting • Documentary • Poetry
Culture is a living tree: rooted in ancestral memory, yet bearing blossoms that adapt to modern light. Roots & Flowers brings digital painting, documentary film, and poetry into conversation.
Roots & Flowers explores individual and collective cultural identities. It invites conversations around safeguarding heritage while challenging customs that divide us.
Roots & Flowers invites viewers to engage in nuanced conversations about our desire to both preserve cultural roots and challenge divisive customs.
Critically explore cultural and inherited identities.
Foster community dialogue on safeguarding heritage while challenging divisive customs.
Bridge visual art, poetry, and documentary filmmaking.
Connect ancestral memory with contemporary perspectives.
Subomi
Visual Artist
“Art is community. I share my findings from exploring the self with the hope that others are inspired to share theirs.”
Shola
Documentary Director & Creator
“Through video production and storytelling, I aim to create work that connects, informs, and inspires audiences around community impact.”
Ahanavi
Poet & Journalist
“My poems examine the emotions under murky waters of falling in love, growing up Nigerian, and my experience as an immigrant in their 20s.”