Sometimes our relationships with our mothers ain't always sunshine and lollipops.
I wrote Mother Wounds to honour that.
Tw: Parental neglect and abuse, nuclear family violence.
If you have mother wounds I love you, it's okay if you're heartbroken 💕
Hi I'm Deb aka Love, Builder of Worlds. I'm a queer trans disabled West African person and artist coping with the struggles of Northern Eurasia. I have a blog that satisfies my need to create, talk, ponder, wonder, discuss and investigate the following:
-Community care and love
-Solarpunk
-My Yorùbá culture and history
-Navigating unemployment
-My thoughts on writing and the blog
I also facilitate a virtual art studio filled with queer black people. If you are a queer black person and you would like to attend any of my events for free please DM me, I would love to have you there.
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Alt text - Love, Builder of Worlds in white and black corridor. They are wearing a furry burgundy hat and burgundy kn95 mask, red clothes, red scarf and brown coat. They have African style makeup on and are looking away from the camera
Alt text: Love, Builder of Worlds with their brown hoodie up in a train station wearing a red N95 mask looking annoyed directly into the camera.
Love, Builder of Worlds, a West African person wearing bright colourful West Africa clothes, and a grey animal print FFP2 mask and a swirly beige knitted hat. Behind them are mirrors and an orange room. They are looking to their up to their right away from the camera.
Love, Builder of Worlds, a West African person wearing bright colourful West Africa clothes, and a grey animal print FFP2 mask and a swirly beige knitted hat. Behind them are mirrors and an orange room. They are looking into a mirror.
An African person on the floor under a desk appearing exhausted and overwhelmed. He is wearing traditional African material, surrounded by office items: a laptop covering his face, theres wires to the right of him, a laptop bag to the left of him and on the office table theres an air purifier necklace, headphones, an ergonomic mouse, a regular mouse, a wireless keyboard, papers, a book and a wireless HDMI transmitter. The image is overall is a bluey hue.
Check out this mini guide for Ireland's Basic Income For Artists ahead of the special information dump on Friday 1st May 2026 by Black British Yorùbá artist Love, Builder of Worlds.
Love, Builder of Worlds is a queer and disabled multi disciplinary artist from Newham, London currently living in Blackrock, Dublin where they facilitate discussions in their members Virtual Art Studio.
Alongside the Virtual Art Studio, they share a newsletter that focuses on queer media from across the African diaspora.
They utilise a wide range of art mediums to share their self expression and process their feelings including digital illustrations, fiber arts, ceramics, web design, hair sculpture, landscape photography, poetry, animation and music production to name a few.
Image 1 description: A poster advertising a special information dump for Irelands Basic Income for Artists. It is on Friday 1 May 7pm GMT+1/WAT. At the bottom it reads learn more at lovebuilderofworlds.blog
Image 2 description: A poster for a virtual art studio by Love, Builder of Worlds. It reads: Creative coaching and body doubling session. -Hosted on zoom -Free for members -Closed Captions. Virtual ART STUDIO. Discussions, body doubling, tutorials and creative advice with trans-disciplinary artist Love, Builder of Worlds. At the bottom of the poster it says: poems, music, film/tv, fiber arts, plus
Image 3 description : Love, Builder of Worlds with their brown hoodie up in a train station wearing a red N95 mask looking directly into the camera.
Among the outer planets - Love, Builder of Worlds
Medium : Digital illustration, PixilArt.com
Year : 2026
Notes from the artist:
Water is my most generous muse, especially fresh bodies of water. I have a deep appreciation for nature and it's reflected in my art. "Among the outer planets" is inspired by a specific picture I took of Dublin Bay while birdwatching last summer. It's also partly inspired by my first visit to Nigeria and the first time I had seen the night sky without the light pollution of London. It amazed me how colourful and spectacular the stars and planets were against a jet black sky.
I enjoyed experimenting with using very small pixels especially when illustrating the ripples, waves and gentle tides. This piece is in conversation with my song Omítórera and my landscape photography.
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Image description: A digital illustration depicting a body of water at night. It's a starry night with colourful planets in the distance and mossy rocks nearby.