Alpha aquarii
Alpha Aquarii is part painting, part celestial meditation. I created it as a reflection on water, stars, and the unknown. The circular format felt essential—like a planet, a pool, or an open eye. I worked with layered shades of pale turquoise, deep ultramarine, and navy blue, letting them bleed and flow like tides, like sky maps. The name comes from the brightest star in the Aquarius constellation, long associated with wisdom, clarity, and the act of pouring out.
This piece is for those who feel connected to water, to silence, to the shape of constellations not yet named.
The deep blues here gesture toward the cosmic: the night sky, the sea, and the divine unknown. Artist Kandinsky described blue as “the colour of depth and of the infinite,” and El Anatsui has spoken of water as both container and connector—binding people, histories, and futures.
The circular format itself holds meaning. In African cosmology, the circle represents continuity, wholeness, and eternity—no beginning or end, just cycles.
Alpha Aquarii is part painting, part celestial meditation. I created it as a reflection on water, stars, and the unknown. The circular format felt essential—like a planet, a pool, or an open eye. I worked with layered shades of pale turquoise, deep ultramarine, and navy blue, letting them bleed and flow like tides, like sky maps. The name comes from the brightest star in the Aquarius constellation, long associated with wisdom, clarity, and the act of pouring out.
This piece is for those who feel connected to water, to silence, to the shape of constellations not yet named.
The deep blues here gesture toward the cosmic: the night sky, the sea, and the divine unknown. Artist Kandinsky described blue as “the colour of depth and of the infinite,” and El Anatsui has spoken of water as both container and connector—binding people, histories, and futures.
The circular format itself holds meaning. In African cosmology, the circle represents continuity, wholeness, and eternity—no beginning or end, just cycles.
Alpha Aquarii is part painting, part celestial meditation. I created it as a reflection on water, stars, and the unknown. The circular format felt essential—like a planet, a pool, or an open eye. I worked with layered shades of pale turquoise, deep ultramarine, and navy blue, letting them bleed and flow like tides, like sky maps. The name comes from the brightest star in the Aquarius constellation, long associated with wisdom, clarity, and the act of pouring out.
This piece is for those who feel connected to water, to silence, to the shape of constellations not yet named.
The deep blues here gesture toward the cosmic: the night sky, the sea, and the divine unknown. Artist Kandinsky described blue as “the colour of depth and of the infinite,” and El Anatsui has spoken of water as both container and connector—binding people, histories, and futures.
The circular format itself holds meaning. In African cosmology, the circle represents continuity, wholeness, and eternity—no beginning or end, just cycles.