Projects
Acholi: Metaphors of Nostalgia
[In Progress]
Acholi: Metaphors of Nostalgia is a research-led collection exploring Acholi customs through objects that speak in metaphor. The collection examines how memory, ritual, and cultural meaning are embedded in everyday forms — carried through use, gesture, and oral tradition rather than written record.
Agulu is the opening object in Acholi: Metaphors of Nostalgia
Goat Mountain: An Architectural Prophercy of Uganda's
Goat Mountain is a research-led architectural project exploring how Uganda could transform its agricultural economy by shifting from raw commodity export to value-added processing.
Agriculture employs around 70% of Uganda’s workforce and contributes approximately 26% of national GDP, yet much of the sector remains extractive. Using goat rearing as a case study, the project examines how agricultural processing could increase GDP, improve farmers’ livelihoods, and enhance quality of life.
Framed as an architectural prophecy, Goat Mountain acts as a forward-looking provocation—encouraging investment in agricultural infrastructure, local agribusinesses, and community-led production. It positions agriculture as both an economic system and a cultural practice, where livestock represents food, income, wealth, and social capital.
The architectural language is rooted in place. Stepped massing draws from Kampala’s hills, while cascading Milk Falls reference Murchison Falls, translating local geography and vernacular sensibilities into contemporary infrastructure.
The project foregrounds process by revealing the stages of goat rearing, processing, and by-product transformation. By placing production on display, it reframes agriculture as cultural expression and creates micro-climates of agro-tourism where production, learning, and experience coexist.
Agro Aesthetics: The Prelude to
Goat Mountain
The Agro Aesthetics collection explores the visual language of a hybrid world — imagining what it might look like if machines and nature were physically merged. These collages set the visual backdrop for a architectural project Goat Mountain: An Architectural Prophecy of Uganda’s Agriculture, a speculative project that seeks to glamourise agriculture and agro-processing in order to inspire greater investment and cultural value within Uganda.
In Final works of Goat Mountain, the space/scene Milk Falls, the journey of milk from parlour to pasteuriser is transformed into a surreal landscape. As the liquid passes through heated tubes, a temperature shift creates a rising white vapour — “Milk Clouds” — that adds a sense of wonder to the scene. Here, a utilitarian process becomes a spectacle of beauty.
This interplay between the artificial mechanisms of processing and the aesthetic by-products they produce reflects the collection’s central question: how might agriculture, often seen as purely functional, be reimagined as an aesthetic and cultural identity ? Works such as The Aesthetics of Genetically Modified Corn formed the early basis of this speculation by drawing from images of artificial corn and genetically modified seeds, reframing their engineered purity not as hidden science but as visual iconography.
Whistleworks
[Collaboration with Alexander, Fran and Star]
Clerkenwell’s early industries—printing, brewing, craft, and instrument-making—were powered by the hidden River Fleet flowing beneath its streets. Though largely unseen today, this river once shaped the area’s labour, movement, and cultural life.
Whistle Works draws on this submerged history, using water as a local metaphor for unseen forces that structure place and memory. Reimagining water not as a utility but as a source of rhythm and wellbeing, the installation translates flow into sound, form, and experience.
The project comprises a series of musical sculptures made from locally recycled glass, positioned at St John’s Gate as a threshold between city and festival, past and present. As water rises and falls through each vertical flute, soft whistles emerge through carefully placed openings—audible traces of the concealed river still flowing beneath Clerkenwell.
By day, coloured glass refracts sunlight into surrounding pools; by night, integrated lighting keeps the forms quietly aglow. Through material reuse and sensory engagement, Whistle Works subtly animates the site, inviting passersby to pause, listen, and reflect before continuing onward.