There are stories that live in books, and then there are stories that live in the body, in the land, in the materials we touch. Stories carried through generations—not always spoken, but always with us. 

What does it mean to inherit memory, not just as a story, but as feeling? And what becomes possible when we treat art not just as an object, but as a living archive?

Ashara Ekundayo is a curator, cultural strategist, and space-maker. 

Adebunmi Gbadebo is an artist whose work reaches into the earth itself, using the soil, clay, and matter to uncover the histories held within.

Both joined The Metro to speak more about the importance indigo holds in the African diaspora. It was ahead of a conversation in the Woodward lecture series hosted by College for Creative Studies.