A sculptural lamp collection grounded in the Gèlèdé tradition, where the power of women within the community is publicly celebrated as an essential act to social balance, continuity, and the generative force of life itself. The work treats light as living matter, cradled, nurtured, and gradually revealed like a child within the womb, reflecting the idea that feminine authority governs how Ìmólè, which encompasses illumination, hope, destiny, and ancestral presence, is carried and introduced to the world.

The lamps are composed of ovoid carved oak wooden vessels that evoke the womb, the calabash, and the orí, the head regarded in Yoruba culture as the seat of destiny. Each vessel is pierced by sand-cast brass spirals that compress and filter light, releasing it outward with measured intensity. The spirals’ granular texture, embedded with the memory of earth, references gestation periods in darkness and materially anchors the work to Ayé, the realm through which life, ancestry, and cosmic force circulate. This layered interplay of wood and brass creates an architecture of restraint where illumination is disciplined, protected, and gradually revealed.