This episode features artist Brandon Ndife in conversation about his work "A Master’s Tools" (2022).  Brandon Ndife’s works merge interior and exterior worlds, often breaking open hand-built domestic objects to reveal an undergrowth of organic forms.  

Born in Hammond, Indiana, to Nigerian and Barbadian parents, Ndife's interest in the arts began at a young age, sparked while attending a high school for the arts and developed during his undergraduate education at the Cooper Union.  At the Cooper Union in 2012, Ndife witnessed the upheaval and destruction brought by Hurricane Sandy to New York. The pervasive sight of discarded furniture left to the elements of natural disaster shifted Ndife‘s artistic focus, bringing themes of domesticity, commodification, decay, and environmental crisis to the forefront of his work.  Ndife builds objects that share an uncanny resemblance to found second-hand furnishings and organic matter such as fruit, tree branches, and soil.  

https://www.studiomuseum.org/artists/brandon-ndife
https://www.studiomuseum.org/artworks/a-masters-tools