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.

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.

1. Brazenly Disavowed Stratum, 2010, [plastic bags, twine and wood] x150cm.96cm x 5596cm

1. Brazenly Disavowed Stratum, 2010, [plastic bags, twine and wood] x150cm.96cm x 5596cm The work Brazenly Disavowed Stratum, comprises of a weaved or crocheted plastic bag spread on a wooden frame, standing perpendicularly with a cone-like shape akin to the face of a loud speaker. Metaphorically it describes the outrageous, but disruptive building up of talk on the solutions to Nigeria`s energy crisis without mindful manifestation of infrastructural changes to support the existing power structures. For more than a decade Nigeria has been experiencing power failure that has affected virtually all aspect of national life. Despite the gigantic noise about the huge budget allocation to this sector, its privatization, change of directors, change of ministers ,personnel and other seeming changes around the subject.