Ross Junior Owusu: Selected Works, 2025-2026
Becoming Giants (ancestral pride), 2026
Scale and repetition give Becoming Giants its sense of presence. Small modular elements are built into larger vertical structures, turning individual gestures into forms that feel monumental and connecting them to ideas of ancestry and inheritance.
The series reflects on how ancestry is carried forward and reinterpreted over time, particularly within diasporic experience. Although the structures appear strong, their stacked construction also gives them a sense of vulnerability and balance.
Journeys (We all Have Stories), 2026
Migration is explored in Journeys through movement, breakage, repair, and reconstruction. Clay records these changes, with surfaces and forms carrying traces of what has been broken, altered, or rebuilt.
The vessel functions both as an object and as a metaphor for memory, absence, and belonging. Rather than presenting home or identity as fixed, Journeys considers how they are continually reshaped through movement and experience.
Across these works, repetition, accumulation, and modular forms become ways of thinking about memory, identity, migration, and cultural inheritance. Clay records touch and change, reflecting identities that continue to develop through experience, movement, and connection.
Just dey Play (stacking up the pieces)
Play becomes a way of making and discovering in Just dey Play. The title describes an intuitive process in which forms are stacked, moved, balanced, and rearranged until new relationships emerge.
The modular pieces sit somewhere between stability and collapse, leaving room for chance and improvisation. Clay records these small adjustments and gestures, making the process of experimentation visible.
BEINGS through the same things, 2025
Shared experiences of migration, adaptation, and survival are at the center of BEINGS through the same things. Repeated forms create a sense of connection, while differences in scale, surface, and shape give each element its own character.
Inspired by repetition and pattern in African beadwork, textiles, and architecture, the series considers how people can experience similar circumstances without becoming the same. Each form remains individual while also belonging to a larger whole.
Forms |In| Formation (Modular Series I), 2025
Built through coiling and repetition, Forms |In| Formation approaches formation as an ongoing process rather than a finished state. Individual units reference Krobo bead traditions as they develop into larger sculptural arrangements.
The forms can be assembled, separated, and reconfigured, reflecting the way identity changes over time. Clay is central to this idea: it responds to touch, pressure, and time, allowing the work to remain somewhere between being formed and still becoming.
