“Through reconstruction and construction,
I generate a living system of possibility”

Here’s a breakdown of how I can collaborate with an architecture firm, depends on both parties’ goals, aesthetics, and client base:

🎨 1. Art Integration in Architectural Projects

I can work with architects to integrate art directly into the built environment — not just as decoration, but as part of the spatial and material experience. Examples:

  • Public art installations (murals, sculptures, mosaics) incorporated into plazas, lobbies, or façades.

  • Glass, metal, or textile works embedded in architectural elements like screens, partitions, or ceilings.

  • Collaborative façade designs where the artist’s visual language influences patterning, relief, or colour.

👉 This often happens through “Percent for Art” programs (especially in public or institutional projects) that dedicate a portion of a building budget to art.

🧩 2. Concept and Design Collaboration

Architects often value artists’ creative thinking at the concept development stage:

  • I can help shape the narrative, texture, or emotional tone of a project.

  • I can for instance create conceptual drawings, colour studies, or digital collages that inspire architectural form or material choices.

  • The idea is that this evolves into a co-design partnership. I can imagine expressing this in cultural, civic, commercial and private spaces.

🏗️ 3. Material Research & Fabrication

I can mentally move through various mediums (ceramics, metal, glass, concrete, textiles, and earth) combined with art history and my perspective of art visionary to bring innovation to architectural detailing:

  • Developing unique material finishes.

  • Collaborating on prototype development or site-specific fabrication.

  • I want to be able to combine my boutique-scale studio production to complement architectural construction.

🌍 4. Environmental & Community Art

In urban design or landscape architecture projects, I want to play a (big) role in legendary community engagement and placemaking:

  • I want to lead community workshops to inform design.

  • I want to create temporary and permanent installations to activate public spaces.

  • I want to design site-responsive artworks that reflect local history, ecology, or identity.

🏢 5. Residencies or In-House Collaborations

Some architecture firms host artist residencies or long-term collaborations:

  • I want to contribute to ongoing creative input to projects.

  • I think that firms can benefits from having a visual or conceptual voice. I want to work in a consultant capacity.

  • This can lead to cross-disciplinary experimentation (like combining painting with digital fabrication or VR modeling).

💼 6. Business and Collaboration Models

Here are a few ways to formalize the partnership:

  • Direct commission: firm hires artist for a specific project.

  • Joint venture: both parties collaborate and present a unified proposal to a client.

  • Consultancy: artist provides conceptual or aesthetic consulting.

  • Residency or retainer: ongoing engagement for creative input.

💭7. Philosophical Design Integration

  • Use my polymath background to bring interdisciplinary thinking

  • Introduce concepts from medicine, philosophy into architectural narratives

  • Create design frameworks that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries

🗣️8. Narrative Architecture

  • Develop storytelling elements within architectural spaces

  • Using my artistic practice to create experiential design layers

  • Introduce cultural, historical, and emotional narratives into spatial design

🤖9. Technological Innovation Bridging

  • Explore how art can communicate complex technological concepts

  • Create visualization strategies for emerging architectural technologies

  • Use artistic practice to make complex design ideas more accessible

Unique Selling Points for My Approach👍:

  • Medical background bringing unique perspective

  • CEO of Sotheby's mentorship providing strong background story.

  • Yoruba cultural heritage offering rich narrative potential

  • Swedish and citizen-of-the-world background and understanding of societal systems

  • Polymathic approach breaking traditional design boundaries

  • Pioneering post-contemporary-in-the-contemporary approach

My Potential Differentiators⚡️:

  • My signature star technique…

  • My layering technique as a metaphor for architectural evolution

  • My Automotive art background suggesting dynamic, movement-based thinking

  • Commitment to global, transformative design

Example Collaborations✨

  • Olafur Eliasson often collaborates with architects on immersive installations and buildings.

  • Maya Lin bridges sculpture and architecture in memorials and environmental projects.

  • Many firms (like Snøhetta, Studio Gang, and Heatherwick Studio) regularly bring artists into their design process.