Kamara Farai | Art as Ritual

Kamara Farai is a visionary artist whose work weaves Black futurism, myth, and spiritual symbolism into richly textured portraiture. Blending digital creation with hand-finished oil painting, she creates surreal worlds that reimagine Black womanhood as mythic, multidimensional, and sovereign.

Her work lives at the edge of ancestral memory and speculative futures.

Gallery Introduction

Before the clocks, there were visions. Memory moved like a cloud of smoke, and time bent to the shape of breath.

Each work in Timekeepers functions as a visual artifact—  a portal into ancestral perception, where mythology is not imagined, but remembered

This body of work is not a collection. It is a continuum— a dialogue between time, identity, and imagination , where every canvas asks:

What do we inherit when we remember differently?

Entering the Continuum…

Timekeepers: A Liminal Mythos

A series of seeing through imagination

"The One Who Watched Time Dream" From the series: Timekeepers — A Liminal Mythos A series of seeing through imagination A surreal portrait of stillness and vision. She is the quiet sentinel at the edge of memory, where clouds drift like forgotten t
Echoes in the Vapor of Time From the series: Timekeepers — A Liminal Mythos A portrait adrift in the breath of forgotten hours. She stands where memory dissolves into mist, holding the echo of something once dreamed. A presence felt more than seen.
The Girl Who Kept Time Waiting From the series: Timekeepers — A Liminal Mythos A surreal myth of survival and imagination. She stands between hours—where childhood pain met prophecy. She blew breath into imagination, stitched time into color, and wo
"Emissary of the Aether" From the series: Timekeepers — A Liminal Mythos She faces the world in profile—half in shadow, half in memory. A vintage clock obscures one eye, suspended like a lens between time and perception. A plume of vapor escapes her
The Fifth Hour of the Liminal Veil From the series: Timekeepers — A Liminal Mythos A portrait of breath, prophecy, and pattern. She gazes through time’s aperture, holding a vision only she can see. Wrapped in memory and motif, she becomes both map a
"A Ritual with Spirit" From the series : Timekeepers - A Liminal Mythos In this luminous vision, Timekeeper 7 is captured mid-ritual — blowing a delicate bubble of breath and possibility, suspended in the ephemeral moment between past and future. Ab