Margaret Ngigi (Sherie)

Wrapped Up In My Head  |  View on OpenSea

Wrapped up in my head is a 1/1 collection I started the series Wrapped up in my head in 2018. At the age of 22 still young, but feeling very suffocated by life. And I realized many people were in the same boat, but the conversation of mental health was not loud enough. On the outside life seemed very rosy for many, looking like they have it all but on the inside feeling very lost and sad. Some keep hope alive and battle with it one day at a time, while others don't make it out alive.

Mke Mwema - View on Foundation

Mke Mwema translates to a good wife in Swahili. I started in 2019, where I stage my models as who I see as a bride at the altar. In the process of deconstructing the sheltered reality that I have been protected from since childhood and now transitioning into a young woman i am learning and unlearning on what it means to be born in the female body in my society. It is an attempt to understand femininity and the marriage institution, which is seen as rite of passage in my society.

Murky Waters - View on Foundation

MURKY WATERS is a 1/1 collection of 8 portraits created in 2019.
This series is my way of examining the challenges that women still face in society, by  illustrating the positions we are forced into, and the situations that different groups of women  find themselves in. We are taught over and over again from childhood that the only way to stay  safe is to remain within fixed boundaries. On this basis, young women must prioritise starting a  family over self-development. I have witnessed how many are then stuck in unhappy and  abusive marriages, and the rate at which girls drop out of school through teenage pregnancies.  Institutions of religion are also used as both a tool of oppression and a means of spreading  miseducation by the broader patriarchal society, furthering these agendas of inequality.

Half Full Half Empty View on ZORA

Half Full Half Empty. And in the moments when the weight of the world is on my shoulders, i close my eyes take a deep breath and dream of paradise.

Flower Crown View on OBJKT

This portrait was inspired by a quote by Ralph Waldo; Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world.

ROYALTY View on OBJLKT

She is a queen, her soul is royalty.” – Adrian Michael

ELATION View on VOICE

I hope in the midst of all the hurdles of life, we may get to dance, we may get to experience some form if elation every once in a while.