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Artist Statement

Nature Knows SBTT

There’s many moments in one’s life that they admittedly or not feel lost
I’ve experienced these moments more often than not, being a Nigerian American going up in Alabama. The 1971 poem “Lost” by David Wagnor goes: “Stand still, The trees ahead and the bushes beside you are not lost, Whereever you are is called here, and you must treat it as a powerful stranger…If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, You are surely lost.”
This poem embodies the feeling of my residency at Studio By The Tracks.
Studio By The Tracks Is Nature
The refurbished building is rich soil and everybody who enters is a seed.
The artists are the sun and their smiles as they work are the rays
The paint splattered tables are the bushes and the art made on them are the flowers
The staff are the tall, sturdy trees and the volunteers are the branches.
The trains passing by are the thunder claps
and the community’s love and support is the rain shower

Nothing about Studio By The Tracks is lost on me.
So in summer ‘25 when I found myself there,
I truly felt as if I were never lost.