Which New Yorker would you want to hang out with? It has a blue dragon on it and the background is red and white. While I was there, I purchased a batik because it reminded me so much of African cloth and the ways it’s dyed with wax. Why are you teaching English? I wanted an adventure and to learn about the culture. I was like, You went to architecture school. After undergrad, in 2002, I decided to take a month and a half and teach English in a rural part of southeast China. I have a batik from China and the reason why I’m surprised I own it has to do with the story that got me to China in the first place. What work of art or artifact are you most surprised you own? It’s actually hard to find clothing in the shade I like, which is a deep, intense purple. Those two colors together reflect who I am. It’s a combination of red, which is an energetic color, and blue, which is a calming color.
I saw how you have to shrink yourself in order to fit into corporate settings. It was sort of like an entry to what it is to work in the corporate world. Before that, I spent summers in high school as an intern for Chemical Bank. It’s run by Nicole Hollant, who’s still a friend of mine today. My first job out of architecture school was an internship with Aaris Design Architects. What’s the first job you had in New York? The photos remind me of who I am and the story before my own story began. My mother came here from Nigeria in the ’60s when she was a teenager and I’m a first-generation American. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, but it’s not necessarily home because I was born and raised here it’s home because it’s the place where my mother lives and the place where we are together. I didn’t curate it to be that way it just turned out like that. Occupation: Urban designer, planner, architect, and director of Creative Urban AlchemyĪ number of photographs of strong women in my family - my mother, my aunt and her children, my grandmother.
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