A traced stela.
30 minute live sketch.
Self-promotional, uncommissioned sketch of Chicago-based rapper/wordsmith Freddie Old Soul
Not your ordinary classroom doodle.
This Ancient Egyptian stela is newly adorned, with notes on its contents jotted to the right. I analyzed many objects in the course of my study; this one being chosen by Prof. Niv Allon at NYU’s Institute for the Study of Ancient World.
This piece was created using Dropbox’s Paper app, on an iPad Pro.
Created for a 2025 design for Chicago’s House of the Lorde
Self-promotional, uncommissioned sketch of Chicago-based disc jockey CTRLZORA
Self-promotional, uncommissioned sketch of Chicago-based disc jockey Hameedullah
KA is a concept lossely trasnlated as spirit in Ancient Egypt. The heirglyphs representing the word for KA in Medu Netcher consisted of two arms, bent and raised above the head, in a posture of praise. This figure recreates the same posture, connecting the spirituality of Egypt with the Black Art tradition of the present.
—Layla June West
“We got to be prepared to fight to the death for the world we need”
