Treasure of Darkness

Title : Treasure of Darkness

Medium : Painting

Size : 2ft 11 inches by 2 ft 3

Year : 2010

(Treasure of Darkness)

Try to look at the night sky, this week and take time before dawn, or after nightfall ,to sit with a single reading lamp take maybe lighting a candle too , & to take a look at this piece of art , read , reflect and ask where are you , God in the darkness ?

Have we lost you? Have you left us .(silence )

How and Where do you experience silence? Do you think of silence as something positive or negative or both .

This Art piece and its traditions have taught you about spiritual value of silence 

Adam And Eve

Name : Adam And Eve

Medium : Stone wash

Size : 2ft 11 inches by 2 ft 3

Year: 2006

Artist Impression : the artist is telling a story about how  some of the things we use are our friend even as inanimate object … everything around us can tell a story both living and known living , like looking intensely at the wood in the picture one can see embedded in the wood the figure of a male and female call it ( adam and eve) .

Difference between knowledge and foolishness(law makers)

Name : Difference between knowledge and foolishness(law makers)

Medium:char coal

Size: 2ft 11 inches by 2 ft 3

Year : 2014

Artist Impression: the artist is trying to draw attention to national assembly , where the law makers sink to the level of law breakers , even to extent of fighting each other…..now looking at this we ask the questions who’s ruling the people , how can proper laws be made to govern the people, and how can a nation expect change with all this going on .. your guess is as good as mine 

Holy Cross Cathedral Lagos State

Name : Holy Cross Cathedral Lagos State

Medium : Stone Wash

Size :2ft 11 inches by 2 ft 3

Year : 2013

Artist Impression:  Lagos State Cathedral

Ekpa dancer

Name:Ekpa dancer

Medium :stone Wash

Size: 2ft 11 inches by 2 ft 3

Year :2006

Artist Impression : the artist is bringing the insite to a culture in cross river called Ejagham...

 people otherwise known as Ekoi are the ethnic minority who once existed in the extreme South Eastern Nigeria extending eastward into the neighbouring Northern Cameroon .With the advent of modern civilization they have migrated to several parts of Nigeria in search of what to do for sustainance.

The women’s associations include Ekpa-Atu, which maintains social order and upholds women’s principal laws, and whose members perform a secret dance at night; Njom-Ekpa, a graded secret association with a sculpted headdress carried by a female dancer; Egbobha, which owns a similar sculpted headdress popular in areas bordering towns. A spiritual dance where the dancer go into trance

Chasing The Wind

Name : chasing the wind

Medium: mismedia

Size: 1ft 5inches by 1ft 1inches

Year:2013

Artist Impression:  …the artist is trying to describe the deep thought concerning the painting about some unknown and known things about life that we go for without getting and these  things stand as things that we can get or we can not get or we forget forever . sometimes we can forget and not think about it but we know they are their but can not be felt .

UBUNTU

Name: UBUNTU

Medium: Painting

Size : 1ft 5inches by 1ft 1inches

Year : 2013

Artist Impression: Ubuntu (meaning in south africa) umntu ngumntu ngabantu Translated literally it means “a human being is a human being ”

            Through other human being

What it means is that each one of us only comes into being and through our connections with others- both those who came before us and those who will come after us.