Masud Olufani’s multidisciplinary practice interrogates the movement and lineage of Blackness, specifically how African American cuisine has served as a modality of constructive resilience, ancestral veneration and cultural cohesion across the diaspora. Much of Olufani’s practice is rooted in the research and history of African foods such as tamarind, kola nuts, rice, cassava and others, tracing their journey to the Americas through the corridor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and how their arrival shaped the nascent diet of the "new world." 

Through the implementation of a variety of studio practices including ceramics, metal and wood working, drawing and painting, kinetics and audio, he creates sculptural works that reposition food production and consumption as an alchemy that satiates the body and the spirit. In this context, nourishment or sustenance, has a double meaning that refers both to the corporeal and the incorporeal–to this world and to “other” worlds. Food is a vessel of histories embedded within the seeds and flesh of African fare such as okra and yams.