I collaborated with Shemi Cudjoe (Smoeky) on the promotional campaign for Fractured Eden, crafting visuals that captured the emotional depth of his project. I also contributed to the filming, styling, and direction of his two main music video, helping to bring his vision to life. We didn't have any budget but that didn't stop me at all.
I handled the photography, filming, styling, and visual direction for this series, ensuring that each frame became an extension of the music’s poetic narrative. These visuals don't just promote Fractured Eden, they embody it, offering the viewer a visual language for Shemi's internal world.
"Fractured Eden" is a captivating musical journey that delves deep into the depths of heartache, repressed emotions, and inner conflicts. It unveils a profound exploration of self-realization and the tumultuous experiences of having one's heart played with to the point of explosion. Through lyrics and evocative melodies, this EP weaves a poignant narrative, drawing inspiration from the timeless themes of love, separation, and the consequences of external influences.
This short film explores the visceral experience of being trapped within one’s own body the tension between suppression and a deep, innate force yearning to break free. Set within an environment designed to evoke psychological and physical containment, the piece captures the moment before eruption, the pressure, the stillness, and the pulse of something awakening.
Crafted with deliberate minimalism, This is a conceptual music video that embraces stark contrast and symbolic motion to navigate the inner terrain of transformation. Framed against the luminous textures of a city wall, the silhouetted figure becomes both guide and ghost, tracing a ritualistic journey through stagnation, drawback and fragmentation,
The film’s choreography is layered with meaning: each gesture, each pause, shaped by the weight of memory and the rhythm of release. Shot intentionally on a phone, the piece prioritizes raw immediacy over polish, reflecting a conscious rejection of perfection in favor of emotional clarity. Shapes blur, dissolve, and reassemble, embodying the dualities of retreat and revelation.
Shemi sits bare-chested atop a splintered tree trunk under the night sky, wearing a handmade crown crafted from natural materials we gathered in that same park. Framed as a shamanic or ancestral figure, his meditative yet haunted expression speaks to resilience and a return to primal roots after loss. The broken tree beneath him becomes a symbol of emotional upheaval and reclamation, central themes in Fractured Eden.
Shemi appears as a dark-winged figure beneath an ornate sculpture. The composition evokes a fallen angel or mythic guardian, embodying emotional exile and defiance. The winged structure draws on divine iconography, crucifixion, burden, transformation, echoing the fragmentation and spiritual tension woven through the EP.
Limbs weave across the frame, with outstretched hands dominating the foreground. The twisted pose cuts a sharp diagonal through the composition, adding to its unease. The sepia tone and harsh flash give the image a raw, archival feel. The hands become symbolic barriers or shields , a manifestation of defense, exposure, or desperate grasp. There's a surrealism to the image that suggests both internal chaos and expressive release. The image evokes a sense of inner conflict, panic, or perhaps self-confrontation.
I collaborated with Freequensea on her promotional campaign, creating visuals that captured the essence of her project. I also contributed to the filming, editing, styling, and direction of her music video, bringing her vision to life. Her project explored the struggle between peace and chaos within, a theme we translated into striking imagery and movement.
This visual piece was developed using Blender and incorporates elements from a previous photoshoot. I began by importing edited images of the model into Blender as image planes and used them as a base to guide the composition and lighting. The background biomechanical structures were created using modifiers such as Mirror, Subdivision Surface, and Displace to generate a sense of fractured symmetry and motion.
I built the reflective textures through custom shader nodes, using metallic and roughness maps to simulate fluid, alien materials. Procedural lighting was crucial to highlight depth and dynamic reflections across the sculpted forms.
The wearable art was handcrafted from foam clay, molded directly onto a mannequin to follow the body’s natural contours. Once shaped, the pieces were air-dried, sealed, and painted with sealant coatings to maintain durability and texture. These were worn in the photoshoot and later composited into the digital environment to blur the lines between physical craft and 3D space.
This visual piece, created for Freequensea, explores the intersection of digital embodiment and human vulnerability. The central figure is surrounded by fragmented, almost biomechanical structures, symbolizing the tension between organic identity and external forces. The contrast between fluidity and rigidity, chaos and order, reflects an internal struggle one of transformation, resilience, and self-discovery. Through this fusion of human form and abstract digital elements, the image blurs the boundaries between reality and the evolving digital realm, inviting the viewer to question where one ends and the other begins
These promotional posters were created as an extension of Freequensea’s otherworldly aesthetic. I wanted to merge her live presence with a mythic, post-human visual language, so I worked across Photoshop and procreate, blurring the lines between digital embodiment and mystic symbolism. I incorporated glitch textures, datamoshing-inspired pixel distortion, and procedural noise overlays to convey digital instability and sonic vibration , visually echoing the name "Freequensea." This includes custom-made brushes and displacement maps used within Photoshop.
Directed and filmed an unreleased music video for Freequensea, conceptualizing visuals that merged mysticism, glitch aesthetics, and post-human performance. Currently unreleased, but central to developing her live aesthetic.
FIA – Eastside Rhinestone Logo
For artist FIA, I designed a custom rhinestone-style logo inspired by early 2000s nostalgia, drawing on the iconic Juicy Couture aesthetic, but reimagined with her signature twist. The design features the title of her upcoming single, Eastside, alongside her name, styled to evoke glamour, edge, and playful confidence.
FIA was thrilled with the result and has expressed interest in further creative collaborations, a testament to the power of aligning vision with vibe.
Created as a submission for Kew Gardens, this video weaves together imagery, sound, and storytelling to reflect on how nature inspired me and my motivation to support the community. Rooted in lived experience, it highlights the therapeutic power of green spaces and the role of creativity in mental and emotional recovery. I also share a bit of budgeting and my personal hands-on practice.
The film received recognition from Kew Gardens and was awarded funding to bring nature-based art workshops to life at Sydenham Garden, a space dedicated to wellbeing through nature and creativity. It stands as both a visual love letter to growth, and a seed planted for future collective healing.
This short film is a six-month visual and sonic journey, crafted to inspire and welcome you into this creative realm.
Told in three chapters, Inception, Journey, and Rebirth. It traces the raw beginnings of an idea, the unpredictable path of making, and the transformative power of art as healing. Every frame is woven with intention: curated music, layered visuals, and moments of reflection that invite you not just to watch, but to feel.
Created for the community at Bethlem Gallery and Hospital, this film is an offering of hope, imagination, and connection, a reminder that creativity lives within us all, even in the darkest of places. Created by Artists Yelley Genkin (Animation, Filmmaker) and Nora Bouchtat (Filmmaker, video editing, Music)