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Can art change society? We believe it already is.
Five years ago, we started Locha Gallery in Kisumu, Kenya, with one belief:
Art should not only decorate walls; it should change lives.
Since then, we've created community art programmes, exhibitions addressing femicide, mental health initiatives, and climate justice projects while building a sustainable creative business that funds social impact.
We're now inviting:
• patrons
• creative partners
• sponsors
• philanthropists
• organizations
to help us scale this work.
If you've ever wanted your support to create measurable community impact through art, I'd love to share our 2026 Partnership & Patron Prospectus.
Leave a comment, and I will reach out.
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Day 17/30: COMMON ROOM
What if a library card could reveal belonging instead of simply proving access?
I built COMMON ROOM, a speculative membership system for the fictional North Quarter Public Library.
Instead of asking members to choose an identity or complete a personality quiz, the system lets their actual behavior inside the library leave the evidence.
Read in the Stacks → leave a margin.
Make in the Workshop → leave a registration mark.
Follow a question through the Index → leave a reference path.
Explore the Quarter → leave a civic trace.
Those traces gradually build a unique Member Record.
The card remembers in layers. Its physical Accession Aperture later becomes a lens into hidden library memory, and completed cards can optionally become part of a Living Collection that begins to reveal the shape of the neighborhood itself.
The project eventually became a system about:
BEHAVIOR → EVIDENCE → OBJECT → MEMORY → COMMUNITY
And the line that defined the whole thing:
You don’t receive a card. You accumulate one.
I also built the launch film around the same visual logic instead of doing a traditional product walkthrough using the card’s traces, layers and aperture as the motion language.
Would love feedback on one thing in particular:
Does the relationship between behavior, the physical card, and belonging read clearly without needing the concept explained first?
Day 17 of my 30 Days of Real Business Problems challenge.
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A cinematic AI action concept set in a ruined world.
This piece follows a mechanical girl battling a massive robot through destruction, debris, and high-intensity motion.
For this project, I focused on delivering a film-level visual experience — combining dramatic close-ups, large-scale action, and heavy VFX energy to create a scene that feels intense, immersive, and cinematic.
A concept built around impact, atmosphere, and blockbuster-style storytelling.
