This journal is an ongoing inquiry into the act of making and the poetics of ownership. It examines the liminal space between the object and the self, the quiet, often overlooked terrain where meaning is formed, transferred, and ultimately preserved. Design, in this context, cannot be reduced to the arrangement of materials toward a functional end. More accurately, it is translating an internal sensibility into form. An attempt, however partial, to render a way of seeing the

A while ago, I was invited to a design workshop. At the end of it, we were each asked to isolate a sense and construct an object, or an experience, around it. I chose the sense of touch and, consequently, designed a spatial experience that attempted to heighten bodily awareness through continuous tactile engagement. After that experience, I became fixated on tactility as a primary mode of knowing and encountering objects, and what that might mean in the context of footwear —

The past few months have been a period of preparation for what we understand to be the next phase of kkerelé: the conception and eventual construction of a standardised manufacturing facility in Nigeria called kké manufacturing company — one that is designed to support our own work while also advancing the work of other design-led businesses. This preparation has taken the form of a pitch deck, yes but most importantly, it meant anticipating the psychological, operational, a

There is a moment in every practice when the central question is no longer how to grow, but on what terms continuation remains legitimate. To continue is to affirm that the existing conditions: ethical, structural, relational, are sufficient to carry the work forward. And when that affirmation is unexamined, continuation can be a latent form of erosion. We felt that erosion this year. Not because the work had weakened; on the contrary, things were functioning well. Objects we