Hi friends it's about an hour to the virtual art studio. This will be the last virtual art studio I facilitate over the summer and potentially beyond. 

The three sessions with you all have taught me so much and I need to process and practice what I have learnt. 

I don't want to be the god of the virtual art studio, I would love other facilitators to utilise the virtual space as well. 

For this session I will be co facilitating with the attendees. I am excited to experiment with the space, I want to practice unmasking in group settings and I'm curious on how co creation and collaboration can foster belonging. 

It's supposed to be a body doubling session that's what I had planned but I would like to see how it goes. I am really really hoping that we'll have the opportunity to share our work with each other as well though, that might be my only suggestion for the session. 

So many things are happening IRL that I must give my time, effort and energy to especially this summer. 

But once my hiatus is complete I would love to come back with another 4 virtual art studio sessions over 4+ months depending on the stars. 

Join the virtual art studio this evening:

https://calendar.online/event/page/c6f0157bcbcca165d81177d1bd7e928a3706864ee0888f0a0e

I created Rheumatological Blues on a night like this where my fibromyalgia pain was keeping me up.

The flare ups are usually linked to my emotional status. Sad, anxious, stressed etc. = flare up. 

I've had flare up after arguments, after uncomfortable conversations, after breakups, after mood shifts, after the dissolving of deep connections and after stressful days at work. My emotional state reflects in my body and it's so painful. 

That's why I distance and disassociate. I'm avoiding the potential physical manifestation pain. And often I don't even realise the true impact of the emotional pain until night falls the painful sensations in my legs pay me an unexpected, unreasonable, unrelenting visit. 

Right now it's 3am and I'm in pain. My pain is keeping me up, and it's been the same pain that's hurt me over and over again since I entered double digits. And after 20 years I still ask how to explain pain? How do I communicate the hurtful sensations that travel up and down my legs at night when I've been emotionally wounded? 

I'm using my acupressure pillow because I don't want to use pain meds. 

A part of me enjoys the pain today. The pain is like a manager that sets up too many one on ones. Overbearing and overly occupying my time. But today I'm sitting with my pain. I'm hardly contending with it. The pain is always a message. The pain asks me questions and answers my questions. 

Why am I hurting? 

Is it the pain of grief? Yes. 

Is it the feeling of uncertainty? Yes. 

Is it fear? Yes. 

Image description: cream curtains lit up from behind in a pitch black room. 

Tw: murder, violence, security forces, racism, anti-African rhetoric. 

Image description: a screenshot of an Instagram post by projectartscentre. It reads:

"His name was Yves Sakila. He had lived in Ireland since 2004. He died on a Dublin street on Friday.

No crime in Ireland is punishable by death.

We stand with the Black community in Ireland, who deserve equal protection under the law, always.

We stand in solidarity with the Congolese community in Ireland.

We stand with Yves Sakila's family.

Use your voice and share.

#JusticeForYvesSakila"

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There's dog whistles and empty rhetoric with white institutions regarding the murder of Yves Salika and I'm really disgusted. 

I've been on Instagram recently and I saw this post from Project Act Center, a theatre multi function space in Dublin. I was once again reminded why I hate social media. 

This is what I replied in the comments:

It doesn't matter when he arrived in Ireland. He didn't die, he was tortured to death. The fact that no crime is punishable by death is a completely irrelevant fact to add into this, the allegations of criminal behaviour have been used to justify torturing him to death. The dog whistles are really really loud. Why is there an assumption he committed a crime? Because the violent men that tortured him said so? And if he had come to Ireland last week Tuesday how would it change anything? Why mention when he came to Ireland? Who is he survived by? Why ain't you calling for the arrest of murderers? 

TW: Death, physical violence, security forces violence, public execution 

Another African person was killed by security forces in Dublin, Ireland, demonstrating the violence of Ireland's anti-African cultural practices, a few days after corrupt former prime minister Bartholomew Ahern was secretly filmed trying to scapegoat African people, particularly Congolese people for the Irish issues he manufactured and engineered. 

A Congolese man called Yves-Sakila was publicly executed on Friday in Dublin outside department store Arnotts by various security forces on the scene. The security guards were allegedly with Arnotts management as they murdered him. 

An extremely disturbing video is circulating social media so please be careful and respect the dead do not share it any further. 

There will be a vigil on Henry Street at 12pm tomorrow Tuesday 19th May 2026 organised by the Congolese Community in Ireland. 

If you can attend please show up in solidarity. 

Hyper-violence against African people by security forces is unacceptable everywhere. 

Hiii everyone, hope you are well. I am feeling so much, I am reconnecting with my family, myself and people I haven't seen or spoken to in years. Its really interesting and its taken me away from my laptop and I love it.

I am in a new group chat with my cousins and I love it, I have been sharing on instagram, I have been attending in person events as well. I have been doing it practising car safety, safe sex and COVID safety to the best of my ability.

But I love my virtual events and I am having 2 events I am so excited to plan and facilitate.

First one is Virtual Art Studio on Friday 29th May 2026 at 7:30pm WAT (Belfast/Lagos)

Here's your free ticket bring any art material you would like to work on during the bodydoubling sessions and bring your links and physical art for show and tell.

Its based on show/tell bodydoubling/pomodoro. 20mins on 10 mins off, 20 mins on 10 mins off then the rest of the time doing show/tell for anyone that would like to share their bodydoubling work, previous work, links and or anything they have created.

For Mercury in Gemini we are discussing : 

Creating new knowledge (Body Doubling)

Agenda: 

20mins - Body Doubling 

10mins - Groupbreak 

20mins - Body Doubling 

Show and tell for the rest of the session. 

The virtual art studio is space for peer to peer creative coaching, experimenting and collaboration. I will be facilitating a space for artists and creative people to share their ideas, thoughts, aspirations and struggles. 

It is a virtual event, for people from all over the world to join from the comfort of their homes.

Next is the Listening Party for my new single Omítórera which is going to be released on Yoruba new year 10,068 which in the Gregorian calendar is June 3rd 2026. So the first Saturday of June I am having a listening party where a playlist curated by me to showcase the musical influences in my life. It should be about 1 hour long.

The Listening Party is on Saturday 6th June 2026 at 4pm WAT (Belfast/Lagos)

Love, Builder of Worlds is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Omítórera - Listening Party
Time: Jun 6, 2026 04:00 PM Dublin
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81800285572?pwd=eI3LYweEAoWww4DJY7B5cRagSnvuoE.1

Meeting chat link
https://us06web.zoom.us/launch/jc/81800285572

Meeting ID: 818 0028 5572
Passcode: 516892

One tap mobile
+35316533895,,81800285572#,,,,*516892# Ireland
+35316533897,,81800285572#,,,,*516892# Ireland

Join by SIP
• 81800285572@zoomcrc.com

Join instructions
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Thats all the energy I have to give right now. After the listening party I am taking the summer off from my blog. No more virtual events, no newsletters just a few scheduled posts. 

TW: parental wounds, parental neglect and family trauma

I am processing my mother wounds through my art, here is one of my many art pieces about my mother. My maker and muse.

I am learning my voice and learning how to record it.

May 2026 reflection - after 7 years of no contact with my mother we are speaking again. 

Image Description: A pixlated picture of a Nigerian women wear green traditional wear looking away from the camera in a white hall way with dark carpet.

Lyrics:
I'm in my thirties tryna heal my soul
mother you hurt me
say you don’t know
mother mistreatment
was served up with hate
A mother's mistreatment
You can relate
You hurt me

You hurt me
And She hurt you
So you hurt me
Mother wounds x2

Controlling
and shaming
and blaming
so nasty
neglectful
stone walling
rejectful
and loathing

You hurt me
Cuz she hurt you
Mother wounds

your disappointment is sure
your hatred rings in my ears
I can not bear it no more
you narrate all of my fears
goodbye

May 2026 reflection: There's an oil famine, can we work fully remote yet? Also fuck plantation owners. I love this song, proud of this music video.

Commuter's Commitment (Mundane Mondays) Music Video - (2024) 

The song is a lo-fi jazz instrumental inspired by the infamous London commute the anti-binary artist Love, Builder of Worlds grew up deeply entrenched in; acutely aware of its adornments of delays, overcrowded platforms, stuffy and sometimes sweltering heat, and of course its ear piercing symphony of screeches. Commuter’s Commitment instead offers itself as a reprieve from the cacophony of chaos that is the commute, and serves the listener as a friendly accompaniment of comfort on those seemingly endless mundane Mondays and the days that follow.

Lyrics: Wake up? Are you awake? The shareholders need their money. Have you woken up yet? Hello? --- Video description : An image of Commuter's Commitment (Mundane Monday) art work (description below). Then there are a series of dark cityscape shots depicting commuters going to work in Dublin city center. Theres city traffic, buses, cars, cyclists, offices, bridges and luas shown at various times of the day. Towards the end of the video the cityscape shots are reversed. The final shot is commuters waiting at a bus stop in the evening. Love, Builder of Worlds logo is shown, then the song credits and music video credits. Audio is a jazzy lo-fi instrumental track with city sounds and towards the end theres Black British person asking questions.

Commuter's Commitment (Mundane Mondays) artwork description: An African person on the floor under a desk appearing exhausted and overwhelmed. He is wearing traditional African material, surrounded by office items: a laptop covering his face, theres wires to the right of him, a laptop bag to the left of him and on the office table theres an air purifier necklace, headphones, an ergonomic mouse, a regular mouse, a wireless keyboard, papers, a book and a wireless HDMI transmitter. The image is overall is a bluey hue.

Music Credits: Writers: Love, Builder of Worlds oneofthemany 

Executive Producers: Love, Builder of Worlds oneofthemany Katlego

Producer: Love, Builder of Worlds oneofthemany

Performance: Love, Builder of Worlds

Guitar: Manae Solara Vaughn Hammond

Art Work: Lea

Mixing Engineer: Manae Solara Vaughn Hammond

Mastering Engineer: Eoghan Tyrell

Special Thanks to Olólùfẹ́ Collective 

Music Video Credits: 

Directed by Love, Builder of Worlds

Check out this mini guide for Ireland's Basic Income For Artists ahead of the special information dump on Friday 1st May 2026 by Black British Yorùbá artist Love, Builder of Worlds. 

Love, Builder of Worlds is a queer and disabled multi disciplinary artist from Newham, London currently living in Blackrock, Dublin where they facilitate discussions in their members Virtual Art Studio. 

Alongside the Virtual Art Studio, they share a newsletter that focuses on queer media from across the African diaspora.

They utilise a wide range of art mediums to share their self expression and process their feelings including fiber arts, ceramics, web design, hair sculpture, landscape photography, poetry, animation and music production 

Image 1 description: A poster advertising a special information dump for Irelands Basic Income for Artists. It is on Friday 1 May 7pm GMT+1/WAT. At the bottom it reads learn more at lovebuilderofworlds.blog

Image 2 description: A poster for a virtual art studio by Love, Builder of Worlds. It reads: Creative coaching and body doubling session. -Hosted on zoom -Free for members -Closed Captions. Virtual ART STUDIO. Discussions, body doubling, tutorials and creative advice with trans-disciplinary artist Love, Builder of Worlds. At the bottom of the poster it says: poems, music, film/tv, fiber arts, plus

Image 3 description : Love, Builder of Worlds with their brown hoodie up in a train station wearing a red N95 mask looking directly into the camera.

Hi all, hope you are well and utilising all the coping strategies in your arsenal to navigate through this particular timeline.

I want to share the proposed agenda for Virtual Art Studio Friday 1st May as there will be no body doubling.

Belonging, uniformity and creating (Ireland's Basic Income For Artists Info Dump) - Friday 1st May 2026 7pm

New Agenda:

• Discussion on belonging, uniformity and creating powered by the Full Moon in Libra
• Groupbreak
• Special Information Dump on Ireland's Basic Income For Artists where I will be applying live.

Prepare for Ireland's Basic Income For Artists information dump by checking out a few links beforehand:

1. I'm prepared to get Ireland's Basic Income For Artists easy explanation blog post from my perspective on how I prepare to apply during the Virtual Art Studio information dump
2. A free ticket to Virtual Art Studio to share with your artists friends that maybe interested in the discussion or the information dump. 
3. Guideline for Basic Income Scheme by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
4. FAQs for Basic Income Scheme by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
5. Sample Application Survey for Basic Income For Artists by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
6. A 10 minute instructional video showing how to register and submit your application for the Basic Income for the Arts scheme 2026 - 2029
7. Application Portal for the Basic Income Scheme

For queries about this scheme or the application process you can email basicincomeforthearts@ccs.gov.ie

Photo Credit - Anon

Breaking Tunes Basic Income Webinar - Thursday 30th April 2026 4pm

Basic Income FAQs for musicians by First Music Contact

Introduction to Logic Pro (6 week remote) course - Starting Monday 11th May 2026

GRRL CLUB RECORDS is oftering a remote 6 weeks beginners course on popular digital audio workstation (DAW) Logic Pro.

Image Description: A poster advertising a special information dump for Irelands Basic Income for Artists. It is on Friday 1 May 7pm GMT+1/WAT. At the bottom it reads learn more at lovebuilderofworlds.blog