Kamara Farai Is a multidisciplinary artist working at the threshold of myth, memory, and visual storytelling. Her work reimagines ancestral narratives through a Black lens, using symbolism, layered process, and sacred repetition to explore the metaphysics of identity, loss, and becoming.

Each piece in this series begins in the digital ether, shaped first by intuitive vision and mythic composition. But it does not remain there. It is then translate the image by hand—painting over printed canvas with oil, pigment, and spirit. The result is a body of work that feels ancient and futuristic all at once, textured with emotion and rich with layered meaning.

Her ongoing series Timekeepers: A Liminal Mythos is rooted in seeing the world differently—both literally and symbolically.

Born with a unique condition affecting her left eye, Kamara has worn glasses since childhood. What once felt like limitation now lives at the center of her vision: a portal, a symbol, a site of power. In her work, clocks replace the left eye as a metaphor for timelessness and transformation.

This series explores the architecture of inner landscapes — mapping the spaces between memory, vision, and the unseen. Recurring motifs—clocks, birds, clouds of smoke, and thread—serve as portals, each holding symbolic weight in the mythos she’s shaping. The clouds appear throughout her work as a liminal veil — a passage between the dreamworld and walking life — echoing Neptune’s nebulous realm. These are not merely paintings; they are visual records of memory in motion. The figures she depict are not fantasies. They are archetypes drawn from lived experience, spirit encounters, and imagined futures. she paints to preserve what the rational world often forgets.

Her work resonates with institutions such as MoMA PS1, The Broad, and The Studio Museum in Harlem, where the intersection of art, narrative, and culture legacy finds its fullest expression.