“To feel vividly nostalgic for deja vu of a dream.”
YAW is a first-generation Ashanti Ghanaian who grew up in a small Pennsylvania town, shaped by two powerful forces: his African heritage and a deeply religious upbringing. Living between cultures, beliefs, and expectations gave him a kind of built-in distance from any single identity. That distance became clarity, a way of seeing the world without fully inheriting its assumptions.
His creative work grows from that space of observation.
Experiential Poetry, African Calligraphy, Neo-Sigilism, and Abstract Minimalism all share a common thread in his practice: expression without pretense, meaning discovered rather than imposed, and a commitment to exploring the mind through subtlety, gesture, form, and imagination. He begins without a destination, allowing each word, line, symbol, or idea to evolve on its own terms.
Over the last decade, this approach has shaped a body of work that reflects personal transformation, cultural memory, and an ongoing search for understanding. YAW creates because the act itself reveals something about thought, about self, about the world. His hope is simple: that others might find, in his work, the spark to explore their own ways of expressing what they carry within.