Coffins are always black and rectangular, looking dull. Not like we really bother about it when most of the time we’ll be thinking about the person in it, not the thing that’s containing him or her. But some people that have fashion taste will also want to leave this world in fashion right? When you’re alive, you look good. Would you want to leave in a dull black box? Well here’s something extremely unique in its own. A coffin that doesn’t look like one!

Paa Joe’s sculpted coffins blur the line between art and craft. Each work is carefully constructed to reflect the ambition or the trade of the person for whom it was made. They are not dead things but are instead a manifestation of and indeed an affirmation of life. The works are wholly African and are a contemporary embodiment of traditional tribal burial rituals and art practice. They link back to pre-colonial West African sculpture but also recall the pomp and extravagance of ancient Egyptian royal tombs.