Adelf Uti aka Elfleda Utiaruk is a queer Nigerian, grief alchemist, visual artist, and Postpartum doula who creates at the threshold between what is seen and what is felt. My practice is a form of living altar work—a ceremonial weaving of the spiritual, ancestral, and creative dimensions of healing. Through visual art, sound, and ritual, I explore birth, death, and transformation as sacred portals of remembrance.

My work is a call to courage—an invitation to meet grief not as an enemy, but as a portal to deeper living. I offer sacred holding from the womb to the beyond, walking with those ready to remember the beauty in their own becoming. My debut collection, The Soul Journey, exists as both altar and mirror—a reflection of how grief, when witnessed with presence and love, reveals our deepest belonging.