STARS

I met Mojisola Abedayo when I was working with Idle Women, we pulled a narrow boat up a canal together. She was Artist in Residence during the summer of 2016 and it was during this time that the original ideas for STARS were drafted into being. The animation I would eventually make began as scanned drawings in 2017 and ended up as part of a bigger visual cacophony than I could have first imagined.

’An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey’ and a ‘concept album on stage’ STARS became a production like no other and the animation has been nominated for an Offie in 2023.

The production finished its initial run at the ICA in May 2023 before embarking on a national tour. The above clip is a work in progress for a sequence in the middle of the show. There is also an accompanying play text which features some of my illustrations.