The work explores the feeling of otherness and the tensions of adapting to a new culture by individuals within the third space of migration. It also explores the adaptive forms and lexicons of identity taken upon by these individuals. The use of gestural lines and dynamic forms is vital in conveying personality in transition within the unstable landscape of the diaspora.

I’m interested in conveying directly my emotions and personal experiences even as I push further the possibilities of painting as a force in challenging the boundaries of pictorial representation. I do not tend to quote directly physically existing places, but to approach the work inventively and create psychological spaces that represent expressions of this third space. In order to do this, there is a constant reshuffling of the content of my memory of home in Nigeria and the current ecosystem I find myself in. This leads to several addition, removal, pushing and layering of paint in the work process. The material itself has to adapt as I negotiate with its fluid nature in giving identity and visibility to the “alien” forms in these spaces.

In “Fighters (All that’s fair in Love and War)” I ask the question, how far will one go, how much will one sacrifice to protect the things (or people) that matter the most to you, even in a losing battle?