Barricade

Alozie .C. Onyirioha. Barricade.2006. Clay(Greenware) , Binding Wire.390cm x 9cm.

By passing a long stretch of binding wire through different sizes of greenware clay slabs, the artist has attempted to use this artwork, Barricade, which is a crude creative imitation of the restricting structures used by most institutions like road safety marshals and dectectives to ward of motorists from accident scene or onlookers from a crime scene, to metaphorically represent a type of fortress or enclosure which saliently announces the existence of something valuable within its precinct, like the number of artworks artworks in his exhibition.