Kosi the Creator

Badlands

2025 · Digital illustration

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A robed figure in deep blue, face veiled, one arm held straight out to the side, two collared black hounds running past with their own blurred shadows trailing behind them, a small animal fleeing at the right, pale sun in an orange dust sky
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I make work about how I see the world, bent toward the surreal, where the details get skewed until the picture says something the reference did not. Fashion, film and music all feed it. The eye that keeps coming back is how I stay present in the work, with or without a signature.

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What the film shows

A silent time-lapse, thirty seconds. It opens on the finished picture, then returns to white, where the nested spheres are drawn as flat concentric rings in line and the standing figure is painted almost to completion very early. The rest of the film is spent on the setting: the same composition appears against a near-black ground, then a brown one, and at one point the tiled floor sits alone on the screen with nothing on it. The pale room and the receding grid are the last state.

Observatory process

The figure is settled early. The room around it takes the rest of the film, through several grounds before the right one.

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Practice

Kosi Okafor in a patterned head wrap and wire-rimmed glasses, head turned away from the camera. Black and white, shot from below in low light.

I would call myself a non-conformist, multifaceted, surrealist artist. I pull from a lot of places at once and look for a way to put it into figures people already recognise.

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Commissions, exhibitions and collecting

Commissions are open for brand work, illustration and cover artwork. Exhibition, press and collecting enquiries are welcome too.