Title: “Ca’an Done” 2023

Medium: Digital Art

Dimensions: 36 x 48 inches

Artists: Femi Kayede and Anthony B. Adeaba

Description: 

Time collapses in “Ca’an Done,” a digital resurrection that fuses the eternal swagger of Shabba Ranks with the mystical silence of the Larabanga Mosque—one of West Africa’s oldest Islamic structures, built from mud and faith in 1421. The phrase “Ca’an Done,” Jamaican patois for “it cannot be finished,” becomes a mantra echoing through centuries, continents, and consciousness.

Shabba Ranks is rendered not as a performer, but as a timeless sentinel. His presence is both celestial and grounded, draped in garments that shimmer like a constellation of riddims. The mosque, intricate in its Sahelian detail, becomes more than architecture—it becomes a metaphor for resilience, resistance, and sacred continuity.

Vivid earth tones and celestial blues swirl in the sky like soundwaves reaching toward the divine. Abstract digital motifs—mosque silhouettes, lyrical fragments, symbols of worship—float across the canvas, creating an immersive environment that is both deeply spiritual and defiantly modern. This is not a celebration of celebrity. It’s a declaration that music and memory, like sacred spaces, never die. “Ca’an Done” is a spiritual archive. A reminder that art, like the ancestors, lives on.