Work on paper
2026
No Man’s Land is part of Formal Vernacular, a new body of collage works that places photographic fragments of vulcaniser shops against archival blueprints of buildings constructed in the same era. The juxtaposition is deliberate: formal architectural drawing meets the vernacular built logic of Ghana’s informal tyre repair sites, structures that occupy land, improvise enclosure, and assert permanence without ever quite achieving it. Where the blueprint fixes intention onto paper, the vulcaniser shop accumulates and adapts, building with what is at hand. Merging the two into a single composition is a way of insisting that these structures belong in the discourse of the built environment, even as they remain unrecorded, precarious, and constantly on the move.