I am blessed with a dual heritage, Yoruba and Edo, and benefit significantly from the advantages that such a double consciousness confers. The materials I select, and the eventual shapes that they assume are shaped by the rich histories and orientations of this heritage. I enjoy the advantage of sitting on the shoulders of one culture, and peeping into the other. Sometimes, I appear to sit on the shoulders of both and peep into the future. Much as I tap from these two great traditions, ordinary, everyday things offer their own fascinating appeal that I am least able to resist.