Data Oruwari, known as The Ancestors’ Scribe, is a Nigerian-born visionary artist and mystic currently based in Richmond, Virginia. Her work emerges at the intersection of Afro mysticism, ancestral remembrance, and esoteric exploration. Rooted in the lived reality of growing up in a post-colonial landscape that sought to erase and demonize indigenous worldviews, Data’s creative journey is a radical act of reclamation. Her practice is a spiritual offering — one that seeks to mend fractured spiritual identities and awaken a deeper connection to ancestral truths.

Self-taught and intuitively led, Data’s evolution as an artist has paralleled the unfolding of her spiritual gifts. As a visionary scribe, she channels divine intelligence into symbolic forms, translating metaphysical insight and ancestral messages into visual language. Her primary medium is pen and ink, though her work expands into watercolor, gouache, sculpture, and digital painting. With a style that is iconographic, Afro-mystical, and meticulously detailed, she weaves together sacred geometry, ancient African aesthetics, and archetypal symbols. Gold frequently appears in her work, not only as embellishment, but as a radiant marker of illumination and sacred knowledge.Data’s creative process is a deeply immersive spiritual practice — a meditative ritual and mystical journey guided by ancestral wisdom, dreams, and altered states of consciousness. Drawing from Afro-Indigenous cosmologies, mystical visions, and metaphysical studies, she explores ancient symbols and esoteric concepts to translate the invisible into form. Through introspection, research, and trance-like states, she allows ancestral guidance to move through her, shaping each mark with intention. The resulting works are contemporary hieroglyphs — visual portals between the seen and unseen, crafted to transmit healing, truth, and cosmic remembrance. Each piece becomes a sacred vessel for divine knowledge, revealing profound insights about existence, duality, and the ancestral soul.

Her work has been exhibited in spaces such as the Art X Lagos and the Columbus Metropolitan Library, commissioned by the office of the president of Egypt, and featured in The Art of Nigerian Women book and by Design Indaba. As a practitioner of visionary art-making rooted in Afro mysticism, Data’s mission is to decolonize, destigmatize, and facilitate the spiritual restoration of African original knowledge systems and practices which speaks to the soul’s search for truth, identity, purpose, and spiritual sovereignty. Her art invites viewers to return to the sacred — to remember, reimagine, and realign.