During rainy season in The Gambia, the rainwater falls long and heavy, nourishing the flora before dying out again in the sweltering sub-saharan heat. This cycle repeats throughout the summer, mirrored by other cycles that gently punctuate time’s progression — graduations and other yearly ceremonies, meals, and daily gatherings — each a momentary marker of delicate human ecology intertwined with the evanescent pulse of each passing moment.
The project for Jarra & Ayo began as an exploration of time, memory, and transience within the rhythms of daily life in The Gambia. Rooted in personal and collective histories, it reflects on the fleeting moments that shape a place and its people — the rituals of gathering, the quiet persistence of routine, and the cyclical nature of existence mirrored in the land itself.
