RED HOT CITY

RED HOT CITY
2009
ALOZIE ONYIRIOHA
Carton, Paper and Earth
44cm x 790cm x 540cm

Red hot city, 2009: Carton, paper and earth. 44cm x 790cm x 540cm.

The work, Red Hot City, consist of squeezed paper soaked in clay and carton smeared with clay and spread on a very wide space looking like a city better describe the unsustainable way we turn our environment against ourselves.

The heated sensations evoked by the red earth, which results in the smarting of ones eyes with prolonged gazing, reveal the dangers of the wild ravages of deforestation that have instigated desert encroachment and the discussed global warming. Though man depends on the environment for his continued existence, he had pointlessly exploited, degraded and polluted it.

CONFINED VOLATILE BAZAAR

Confined Volatile Bazaar, 2009: Wood, snacks and grocery wrappers, cello tape and baco bag. 366cm x 757cm x 480cm.
The work consists of snacks and grocery wrappers waste weaved into a netlike shape on a cello tape spread on boxlike wooden frame curving out from a shopping sack with me and my friends playing within the internment. The exertion necessary illustrates man and his cultural practice in relation to the so called global economic meltdown. Man, while aspiring to remain in the podium of superiority, is finding him self in a pen of endless resources.