Split Mind Gorilla Archives

29/08/2026

Hi there :)

Welcome to my page. My name is Adikinyi. I am a multidisciplinary artist who works in art music and literature. The picture above is the last self-portrait that I created. I rarely show my face on social media and this brings me joy.

A little bit more about me :
- My former instagram name was antisocial_octopus. I began posting on this profile when I was 19 which is why the first post is dated to the 1900's. Currently, I am 30 years old going on 31 years old. I have 6 year locs on my head. I am a woman.
- In the recent years, I have spent a lot of time away from social life and the Nairobi art culture. My solitude has had me spend a lot of time with my cat Scott aka Biscotti Thursday.
- I live in Nairobi and I am 100% Kenyan, born and raised.
- I ran a website, adikinyi.co.ke, where I post most of my work. All my work is done by me - no AI involved. I began my relationship with the arts and music when I was a primary school student learning the Piano. i began my artist career as a photographer. I continue to make art and music which has also always grown alongside my writing.
-I love flowers, coffee astronomy, poetry and pancakes. I read lots of books and love to listen to music album from top to bottom. Currently I am reading 'I shall not be moved' by Maya Angelou and I am currently listening to the Mick Jenkins discography.
-My website is called The Split Mind (Gorilla) Archives, which is a reference to an illness I was diagnosec with. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2018 and I have been medicated ever since. My website is an expression of art, music and literature through my perspective since I was diagnosed and is equal parts crazy and creative. I don't bite, so feel free to reach out to me.

That;s most of what you need to know about me. The rest will revela itself through my work. Welcome to my corner of the internet.
The link in my bio is everything you may need to navigate my work from my mailing list subscription to articles and interviews about past exhibitions and links to purchasing my art.

Karibu sana and stay safe in these streets. 🖤 🖖🏿

26/08/2026

The choice is yours.
I wish you good health and good luck.

The choice is yours. I wish you good health and good luck.

21/08/2026

It isn't a given that you will take this path of creativity. Many times you will want to give up. It gets hard, shame creeps in, you end up wanting a lot more than you did in the beginning, your world expands and you meet more people who share with you more about this gift you have.

It isn’t a given that you will take this path of creativity. Many times you will want to give up. It gets hard, shame creeps in, you end up wanting a lot more than you did in the beginning, y…

21/08/2026

The choice is yours. I wish you good health and good luck.

The choice is yours. I wish you good health and good luck.

03/08/2026

One step . . .

One step, two steps, fall . . .

24/07/2026

Famously, Trevor Noah has said, "The price of civilisation is the stability of the village." (Or words to that effect).

Famously, Trevor Noah has said, “The price of civilisation is the stability of the village.” (Or words to that effect).

08/07/2026

“There are some stories that will never be written, songs that will never be sung, pictures that will never be taken, but their energy has been transmitted across the world, through the atmosphere into the earth’s core. Snippets of the moments that birthed these unwritten, remembered, observed pieces of art leak into the physical world- from the ether. These stories go down to Hades or are carried by God’s angels to Their ears.
This is one of those stories. All that remains are the words of simple poetry that exist and came to be through the cracks travelling on the surface of the story teller, the poet.”

It began, well, almost began, with the first drawing : a conversation with ancestry. . . A doodle in the lazy hours of the unemployed morning.
Check out the rest of the images on the website [adikinyi.co.ke] or check out the link in my bio and click on the latest post.

process.

07/07/2026

These were some of the frames in the creative process. These drawings began in a notebook in about 2018. I filled the book and put the drawings for a while, before picking them up again in 2023.
Some are exact replicas, other’s are moderations and others are completely new.
Check out the images at[adikinyi.co.ke] under ‘Archives’.
-A New Way To Sea.