Monday, February 21, 2011

MARKET HOUNDS, 2010, [wood, tape, snacks and grocery wrappers] 120cm x 560cm x89cm.





MARKET HOUNDS, 2010, [wood, tape, snacks and grocery wrappers] 120cm x 560cm x89cm.The work market hound is made up of tape, wood, and snacks and grocery wrappers standing in space. This work invokes one’s sense of organization, association; group institutions which could be systematized or put in array to convey advantageous economic social life. The inadequate electricity makes it unworkable to do business in Nigeria. Look at the activities surrounding us; one would agree with me that this century Nigeria is ridden with all kinds of social vice, due to persistent being without a job. Streets are besieged with hawkers who customarily would have initiated a gainful employment in some reasonable enterprise.


Sunday, January 23, 2011

Hindrance, 2010, plastic bag and wood, 540cm x 240cm x 129cm.







Hindrance, 2010, plastic bag and wood, 540cm x 240cm x 129cm. this work crudely and shrewdly reechoes the artist in his own manner of defining frustration. Frustration in our attempts to our different vocations, frustration in searching for fulfillment in life, frustrations in living out the ideals of our various professions. The arrangement of this work suggests a ball, or a globe in a net, in closer inspection, the vulnerability of this ball is revealed, as it will move with a simple touch to any destination when it is not held within the confines of this net.