VerCetty Made It Studios
Ancient Futures
These art pieces sought to connect chess, ancestral learnings, sacred geometry, and spiritual alignment. It was made in collaboration with Midjourney AI using one of my 3D digital sculpture renderings as the prompt, then edited and further rendered by me in analog using Photoshop for colouring and digital painting and Cinema 4D to establish the parallax and more depth.
2021. Over the last few years I have been very fortunate to mentor young people and children while caring for my many god children and nieces and nephews - I realize my work in Afrofuturism is for them - for they will be the one ultimately inheriting Afrofutures that I dream about in my work. As such I am reminded of the proverb "the mind of a child is a bird nest" and I grateful to add vines that can help to expand the mind.
art inspired by chess, ancestral learnings, sacred geometry, and spiritual alignment made in collaboration with Midjourney AI using one of my 3D digital sculpture rendering as the prompt and telling it to study my body of work - prompt includes the phrase "sculpture made by Quentin VerCetty" The series is my offering to my Ewe Ancestors and the elders who have encouraged me to dig deeper into my roots and sankofa. My intention was to grow the innerchild while extending external roots and branc
The young Intergalactic blacksmith apprentice Kwame sat before an old earth chessboard seeking a way to overcome his fear of success. He worries at such a young age what would it mean to have to leave his family behind and forge matter on new terrains... Leaning over a chess board Kwame reminds quote the words of the ancient "Afɔ me yi na nugbe eye atagba tsi na aƒe o. (The foot does not go on a mission and leaves the thigh at home)".
translate from Ewe to English as " Established home or foundation". In creating this piece, I am reminded of the African proverb "The strength of a tree is dependent on the strength of ground she is established for this determines the health of the roots.
The name translate from Ewe to English as " Established home or foundation".
"Flowing Dagba <Dagba means blessings in Ewe language>" the works are an celebration of movement, the ancestors of the African Gold basin region and dynamic/ dynamism.
"Flowing Dagba <Dagba means blessings in Ewe language>" the works are an celebration of movement, the ancestors of the African Gold basin region and dynamic/ dynamism.
"Flowing Dagba <Dagba means blessings in Ewe language>" the works are an celebration of movement, the ancestors of the African Gold basin region and dynamic/ dynamism.