↗The Matrix Spat Me Out, and I Love It
I spent years trying to make myself fit a conventional life. Eventually I started wondering whether the failures were not evidence that something was …
ONE MIND. MANY WORLDS.NAIROBI, KE / STILL BECOMING.
This is DAVIEY. One mind. A few different worlds.
One mind. A few different worlds.
Music, film, writing, objects and systems. Made in Nairobi.
100% DAVIEY.
YES, THE SAME PERSON.
01 / MEET THE MULTITUDE
Some people
pick a lane.
I make roads.
Art is the most important thing to me. Everything else is here to enable it.
Enter the body of work ↗
STILL BECOMING.
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↗EVERYTHING ELSE IS INFRASTRUCTURE
I think I’ve finally admitted something to myself: art is the most important thing to me. Work, money, technology and all the practical machinery …
↗LET’S GO
DAVIEY’s statement of intent: English, Sheng and Swahili wordplay about survival, versatility, ambition and moving into an artistic life.
↗A Chance of Rage
A darker companion series set in a Nairobi where a masked figure called Rage confronts people accustomed to escaping consequences.
Fateci Caso↗
Fateci Caso
Essays and observations by DAVIEY on identity, ambition, belief, art and the small absurdities through which a life reveals itself.
↗Domestic Propaganda™
An ongoing typographic art and interior print series that treats ordinary thoughts, Kenyan expressions and everyday absurdities with the visual seriousness of government notices …
03 / THE THREAD THROUGH IT ALLAn underdog.
An underdog.
A question.
A decent chance.
I make music, films, writing, objects and systems. The thread is the same: curiosity, empathy, and a refusal to accept that the way things are is the only way they can be. Made in Nairobi. Still becoming.
Notes from base reality ↗