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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Bunmi Agusto, Dyeing the Sky, 2025
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Bunmi Agusto

Dyeing the Sky, 2025
Pastel pencil, coloured pencil, ink and acrylic on sanded pastel paper
101.1 x 71.3 cm
39 3/4 x 28 1/8 in (unframed)
105 x 72 x 4 cm
41 3/8 x 28 3/8 x 1 5/8 in (framed)
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Here we see a picture of the dye pits in Kano in Northern Nigeria. There's this technique of dyeing fabric indigo, and it's being revisited now, but for a long...
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Here we see a picture of the dye pits in Kano in Northern Nigeria. There's this technique of dyeing fabric indigo, and it's being revisited now, but for a long time, it wasn't a practice to like the scale of production it used to be. And so lots of techniques and ways of doing things were lost to ancestors. And the way I depict ghosts in my work is them having printed bodies with black limbs, black drawn limbs extending from them. So, what we're essentially seeing here, these ghosts using these dye pits, situated in the spiritual realm and basically showing these ghosts using their skills to dye the sky blue. And as you can see, there's some cowries littered around them, because they then embed those cowries onto the cloak to then create and make the stars. Or someone does. It hasn't been made clear who is in charge of the star cowrie application. "

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In Focus: Bunmi Agusto. Tales By Moonlight 2 October - 1 November 2025, Tiwani Contemporary London
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