About the Work
This project is a large-scale installation designed to bring people together within a shared space of light, structure, and presence.
What is built is a vessel that people commune around, reflect on, and experience together.
What it Means
Brews 12 v UNO: cLOUD OF WITnesses draws inspiration from the ancestral support through the Egungun, those who paved the way for us.
It continues through the rituals of card playing, the symbolism of chance and fate, and the traditions of Black storytelling, where people sit together long enough for truth to emerge.
The presence of Egungun moves through the work as living memory, ancestral spirits dancing at the edge of the visible, reminding us that those who came before are not gone, but actively witnessing, guiding, and celebrating alongside us.
Those who are deceased, but not forgotten.
Powdered drink packets are suspended like an offering within stained glass–inspired panels, forming part of the sculptural language of the work.
Everyday objects become symbols of gathering, presence, and nostalgia.
The installation is a living interpretation of Hebrews 12:1 (NRSV). It’s a reminder that we are surrounded by a great cLOUD OF WITnesses.
Participants are invited to stop, sit, look up, and enter a shared space of reflection beneath that cloud, for memory, play, and community as part of the scripture unfolding in real time.
Eric’s broader work reminds us that culture is not distant or abstract.
It lives in how we connect, how we listen, how we remember, and how we imagine new ways of belonging together.
THE EXPERIENCE
The structure shifts with time.
During the day, light moves through it, changing with position, movement, and environment.
At night, it becomes illuminated from within. A visible presence that draws people in.
There is no single way to move through it.
The experience is shaped by those who enter it.