Adama Delphine is an American artist of Sierra-Leonian and Equatorial Guinean heritage, interested in “bending the imagination into new dimensions” and thinking through Afrofuturism, decolonization, and memory. In this work, water is a source of movement and stillness, meditation and presence. The figure is our guide, looking outward. We feel their breath animated by tiny movements and sonic contemplations. Rippling water, sound waves, intergalactic frequencies, come together through this collaboration between artist and sun/son.

An Intergalactic Experience on the Mende Express, Pujehun, Sierra Leone
“I’m actually a presence sent to you by your ancestors.” - Sun Ra, Space is the Place
Crowned with a radiated Mende Mask beaming throughout the galaxies.
    ...water and solar energies. 

I am interested in bending the imagination into new dimensions.
This is a collaboration and split with my Sun Che Buford who provided the sound. Che is an award winning emerging composer and violinist. (www.chebuford.com). He is currently a senior at Boston Conservatory.  

Proceeds from this NFT will go to the Nenneh Children Fund in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The Nenneh Children Fund provides quality education to children who would not normally have access. Funds will go towards infrastructure and curriculum development.

Video/Generative/Sound 1450 × 1080 

Adama Delphine Fawundu from my genesis solo NFT exhibit titled, “The Spirit House” Part of the XX1/OFF Block Party



an intergalactic experience on the Mende express

Augmented Archive 23, Colorized, 2021

Notes on Travecacceleration

Bíblia, boi e bala I // Bible, ox and bullet I

🟡 𝕹𝖊𝖑𝖙𝖔𝖐𝖔𝖓𝖎 : 𝕴𝖙𝖍𝖚𝖆 🟡

Tupinambá

SHINE 2

The End (For Now)

The artworks in this curated collection explore preservation and adaptation. Using the digital space to consider ways in which ancestral knowledge, lived experience, and collaboration can create different pathways into understanding our present moment, making sense of what came before and how we might want to move into the future.


Here we see layering of time, textures, materials, and modes of being. There is an inherent transparency to working in this way, in which it feels like all of the artists are exploring the ethics of collaboration, collage, and reinterpretation. Visual imagery, metaphors, and sound as languaging tools. Ones which feel the personal hand of the artist while also exploring wider notions of archival preservation and augmentation.


I’m interested in how certain aspects of the artworks are preserved in digital form— whether it’s a literal image, visual style, sound, cultural or historical context—while simultaneously becoming a hybrid with new context and connotations. To me this feels a lot like memory. How we remember, how we tell stories, and how we make meaning out of our lived experience.


What are the things we want to remember, to meditate on, to take forward with us? How does layering in digital space allow us to pull things apart and reorder them in new fragments, visual languages, sounds, code…

Ancestral Futures

Exploring the hybridity of the original and the possible.

an intergalactic experience on the Mende express

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