Conversations with Ancestors

Waiting on a Message

I wonder what they will say. I wonder if they will judge me, for what I have done. I wonder if they are not responding because my white side is mad at my brown side. Do they think I have potential? Maybe they will respond when I’m on top of a mountain, or maybe when I am rock bottom.

Fire Dance

I wanted to burn this feeling in side of me and ask my ancestors why? But as it all burned down it transformed. It burned and I missed the purity in that message. I am still bitter and ask why.

Inkpa’s practice investigates how Indigenous knowledge systems, material traditions, and emerging digital forms can be held together and interlocked. Through this convergence, he seeks to create spaces that honor continuity while challenging narratives of disappearance, silence, and fragmentation. Working across painting and sculpture, he engages both historical and virtual space to examine how reality is shaped through ancestry, memory, and perception.