سلفي نيلي / آباؤ اجداد نیل / mababu indigo

Portrait from Boulevard Dreamers Showcase, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2018, Photo by Kirsten Leenaars and Lise Haller Baggesen
Still from CURSES music video, 2019

indigo is an ancestor as much as the plant connects my ancestors and is written in the three langauges of swahili, arabic and urdu. this blue color garment features images from my family and textile details including cyanotype, custom embrodiery and ribbons.