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Delali Cofie is an emerging Toronto-based artist on the rise. Day Dreaming is a photograph the artist’s friend, Mansa. In his own words, Cofie was “inspired by my admiration of his drive and courage to chase his dreams. Amid the most uncertain time in our early adult life, to me it felt like he was standing tall against a backdrop of possibility, constructing his own horizon. The process of creating this image caused me to think about the strength of the human spirit matching the beautiful force of the unknown. My approach to capturing that strength, through his pose and symmetry of the composition, was inspired by West African wood carvings, a practice that I watched my father do growing up.”