Tales by Moonlight is a body of work that highlights African nighttime oral tradition and situates my world-building practice in that lineage. There are several nods to theatre, set design and puppeteering, thus transforming the landscape into a set. Human figures dye the night sky curtain indigo using ancient dyeing practices from Northern Nigeria. Cowrie shells are used to adorn this curtain of the night sky as stars. Shape-shifting printed ghosts help support this meta world-building by helping transport materials and preparing the curtain.

"Dyeing the Sky is the first work. I think chronologically, Dyeing the Sky is the first piece narratively.
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. "