Cartography Is Not Home.
An artistic body of work at the intersection of ancestral intelligence, material science, and living systems. Surfacing publicly in 2026.
The spine claim: intelligence is material. It does not float above the physical world. It arises from and through specific material conditions. The spider web is not a metaphor for the internet. The mycelium is not a metaphor for distributed intelligence. The relationships run the other way.
The work holds three movements, traced from Vipassana visions in February 2026.
Ancestral material. DNA, bone, soil, mineral. The matter that carries decisions forward across generations. The L3b1a maps. Igbo lineage. The maternal haplogroup.
Material listening. Birdsong as visible wave. Spider webs as sonic instruments. Dew as lens. The body inside the material before language arrives. AuDHD sensitivity as ancestral listening.
Biological-digital convergence. Mycelium-printed structures. DNA sonification. The place where what is grown and what is built collapse into each other.
"What if intelligence is not something we possess, but something that arises through relationship?"The central question, arrived 2017. Everything since has been one long answering of it.
The Ritual of Inherited Code is the underlying research practice — sonic field recordings, soil analysis, DNA sonification, biological materials. Cartography Is Not Home is what the research produces in public form.
Ada is an Honorary Fellow at Arts University Plymouth, where this research is ongoing.
Commissions and residencies →Five elements. Five domains. The architecture beneath the work.
Ether
Technology
AI, data, interfaces. The digital field that surrounds every decision.
Air
Relationship
Leadership, community, trust. The invisible architecture of what coheres.
Fire
Ecology
Climate, biodiversity, regeneration. The living systems we are embedded in.
Water
Ritual
Culture, care, meaning. What flows through organisations that no org chart can represent.
Earth
Awareness
Cognition, learning, legacy. What remains when everything else is stripped back.
"The indigenous people asked permission of a body of water before entering it."From the Brazil Vision Quest, 2023 · The Ritual of Inherited Code