Bunmi Agusto is an artist, writer, curator and art historian who explores fantasy and magical storytelling. Her mixed-media artworks combine painting, drawing and printmaking to depict otherworldly landscapes merged with geometric compositions that draw from West African aesthetics embedded in her cultural consciousness. Collectively, her work is narratively informed by a paracosm — an alternate reality in the artist’s mind named ‘Within’ with braided terrains. This world reflects the artist’s interiority and is a site to explore psychology, cultural theory and the evolution of selfhood through the lens of fantasy. Within functions as a repository for all people, objects and theories the artist encounters in her waking life as she creates fantastical retellings of her lived experiences as well as the unseen mechanics of the metaphysical forces around us. Therefore, each work of hers acts as a story panel in an intricate ever-expanding narrative.