Perhaps Here — Cenìnye

Cenìnye

Perhaps Here
physical + digital collages, 4 x 5 inch journals, ballpoint pen.
Chicago, IL
Boston, MA
2025 - ongoing.

“You shall be free indeed when your days
are not without a care nor your nights
without a want and a grief,

But rather when these things girdle your
life and yet you rise above them
naked and
unbound.”

Khalil Gibran

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works

01. Perhaps Here.
02. Untitled “American Portraits”
03. Son of Liberia.
04. Princess.
05. From Home.
06. Self Portraits As An American Optimist.

commissioned

07. Design Museum Of Chicago
08. Onyx, The Black Literary Experience.
09. Africana Center.
10. STYLE
11. Mourning Walls .
12. Through These Realities.
13. MXFAM

there is this thing.
I speak vaguely because it’s hard for me to define.
it sits in the in-between, perhaps—the unseen, the here and there.
the future and the present.

there is this thing.
this feeling, this incredible awe, this incredible—
the incredible discovery that I am living here.
that I am here.

It is amazing to think that I am here.
I don’t know how to make that clear.
that I know not of my origin—

that one day—poof!

I am here.

I am incredibly grateful for being here.
and to God be all the glory.