Tajah Ellis

Tajah Ellis is a born-and-bred Bed-Stuy native with ancestral waters hailing from Belize. Her artisanship as a bio-designer embraces the regenerative mechanisms of intuitive chemistry, organic mapping, and biological emergence through the growth, decay, and circularity of natural materials. Ellis’ craft unites rituals of antiquity into extended future formation, combining the origins of ecological excavation for dyes and pigments, further transforming plant matter into a vibrant range of colors and textures, then again into biomaterials, grown through research and experimentation. Tajah grounds Pan-African and Afro-Indigenous continuity through alternative calculating systems with her research on algae, logwood, and crystals by way of her re/de-construction practice, OUTOFSEAM, and her research-based, dream-driven journal, ‘noon’.