“It just had this appeal to me because you can create the things you don’t have.” Meet Ekow Nimako, a Ghanaian-Canadian artist who uses black LEGO bricks to build jaw-dropping sculptures. While some of his masterpieces take nearly one-thousand hours to create, he has the ability to prototype a new design in just one day. We tour his home studios where he began creating his breathtaking art and explore some of his custom builds inspired by Black mythology.
Check out more of Ekow’s work on TikTok: @ekownimakostudios
Director: Charlie Jordan
Director of Photography: Dave Sanders
Editor: Jordan Calig
Expert: Ekow Nimako
Creative Producer: Wendi Jonassen
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: D. Eric Martinez
Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila
Camera Operator: Jerome W. Tan
Sound Mixer: Dave Plank
Production Assistant: Andrew Vance
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds
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As an artist myself, this was very interesting and soulful 🙌🙌
If a white man did an ancestral white Lego sculptures.. would he be slandered for racism today?
biggest corn ball on earth
Amazing talent ❤
He knows he’s brown right? 😂
Will he one day have the courage to just Lego?
Homeboy is the Morpheus of Lego
This makes me want to be black
And if a yt person did this…
5:07 bruh you were 3yo😂 wasnt expecting that you started lego to support your family at 3 years old 😂
4:57 there is no need to highlight him lol.
Ugh he’s a wokey…you could just be a great artist, but you decided to be insufferable and have every word that comes out of your mouth somehow tied to your toxic vile ideology.
Well that’s fkn raciest
this guy needs to be in the new Lego movie 💅🧱🔥
I was enjoying this video and this man’s art until he got political and said that Lego has underrepresented black people 🙄 how?
Does he use illegal techniques? I have to know!
black is hard for eye to see . i dont know why he does with just black //
THE MAN OF MY LIFE
this guy is so corny
Amazing 👏🏾