Ekene May Studios

14/04/2025

The First Rule of Strength, is Kindness.
Acrylic on Canvas
18" x 24"
2025
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the second is softness,
and how we tend to ourselves,
and extend grace to our imperfections,

then there's empathy,
and the many ways we wear other people's shoes,
and feel where it pinches.
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24/02/2025

Love is the Only Remedy, for Darkness.
33" x 33"
Acrylic on Canvas
2023 - 2024
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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