Ekene May Studios

12/11/2024

There are future shoes we cannot fit, until we grow our feet today.

Tomorrow Will Wait, For Me, investigates what it means for humans to realize they have a choice at life and living. Often, we are under the pressure of trying to figure everything out, all at once but the truth is, our future wants to meet the best version of us and so it waits.

It waits for us to grow, to mature, to have the ability to handle what it will bring our way. There are aspects of our lives we will never be able to handle until we learn from today.

Tomorrow always waits for us to grow into her.

There is an Igbo adage that says ‘Mgbe onye ji tete ụra bụ ụtụtụ ya” which means “whenever a person wakes up is their morning”. This can be said to mean, we start to live out our dreams, and desired lives, the exact moment we start and there is no “lateness” to it, because the future is waiting to meet us as well.

P.S - I tried to make the caption short, I tried.😌
P.P.S - she inspired the miniature collection.❤️

Tomorrow Will Wait, For Me,
Acrylic on Canvas,
40” x 44”
2024

13/10/2023

Title - Brave
Medium - Acrylic on Canvas
Size - 3ft x 4ft
Year - 2023
Status - Available
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It takes a tiny little bit more courage, to be bold, to learn something new,
to stand out and be brave.
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17/08/2023

Title - Unafraid
Medium - Acrylic on Canvas
Size - 85cm x 92cm
Year - 2023
Status - Available
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Unafraid,
and all the many ways our dreams can be lived,
and all the many channels through which we can find ourselves,
and all the spheres where we can simply be,
simple exist,
simply rest,
simply pull our dreams into reality,
doing it, unafraid.
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17/08/2023

Title - Seer 1
Medium - Acrylic on Canvas
Size - 8" x 10"
Year - 2023
Status - Available
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We all see the world differently,
don't you see?
how we differ in the way we think,
don't you see?
how our experiences shape our needs and desires,
don't you see?
how the things we seek are orchestrated by the things we see,
don't you see?
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15/08/2023

Title - Spirited
Medium - Acrylic on Canvas
Year - 2023
Size - 2ft x 2ft
Status - Available
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Sometimes,
it's not really the things we want or need that we get,
it's all the things our spirit call, the very ones we have the capacity to ask for,
to summon,
to birth into reality,
to call forth as though they were,
to live by faith.
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15/08/2023

15/08/2023

To the women in my life,
who show up for me,
time and time again,
and again,
holding me up,
cheering me on,
screaming the loudest,
praying,
hoping,
laughing,
playing,
believing,
keeping faith,
because we did Wuse 2,
we'll do New York too.
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15/08/2023

About Last Week
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I showed two audacious paintings; her Royal Majesty, Majestic and the excellent Brave, at the Made In Nigeria Arts Exhibition.
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I also made new & great connections and on a general note, had a great time sharing my gift & stories with the world and laughter with friends.
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15/08/2023

Title - Audacity 1
Medium - Acrylic on Canvas
Year - 2023
Size - 90cm x 120cm
Status - Sold❤️
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It's the audacity for me,
to use this phrase when I'm stunned,
or exasperated, or simply mortified,

It's the audacity for me,
to pull this phrase into an entire painting, and tell a story around it,

it's the audacity for me,
to stay astonished at every other painting I have created after her,

It's the audacity for me,
to have in the works, more paintings in the audacity series, of women who have the audacity,

the audacity to be, to rest, to live in luxury and have a glass of fine wine or tea, to be African women who find the time to rest, to read, to sit pretty, in a state of affluence, to be in a state of stillness and of doing, nothing.

That's the audacity, for me.
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15/08/2023

Title - Fearless
Size - 85cm x 92cm
Medium - Acrylic on Canvas
Year - 2023
Status - 2023
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It's a certain kind of fearlessness,
this knowing,
that you can be,
and are enough,
whole, bright, bold, essential,

it's a certain kind of knowing,
this fearlessness,
this fierceness,
to show up,
bright and beautiful,
with an enoughness that's contagious,
loops everything you touch,
everywhere you go,
and pours back into you,

there's a certain kind of worthiness,
this acceptance,
this space, this place brings,

to be enough,
and fearless.