BRAIN DRAIN

Alozie C. Chibuike. Brain Drain. 2006. Clay.Brain Drain, 170cmx170cmx20cm.

In this work, there is also an scattered assemblage of clay works, that have been pierced and

cut into half.

The clay works actually represent fruits of avacado pears that have been have been hollowed and split into half. It is an art work that metaphorically potrays the 'brain drain' syndrome that has been haunting the country for a long time now, where a large number of Nigerian citizens travel out of the country to become citizens of foreign countries. Through this artwork, the artist tries to express the fact that it is not just individuals that leave the country for the so called 'greener pastures but on the general scale the country is being drained of thousands upon thousands of human resources who individually have the potential to transform the country into the green pastures they seek, our lame political and socio-economical strides towards development notwithstanding.