Sharing a personal thought (I) by Babafemi Ogunkanmbi
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 28 x 38 in
Year: 2025
Price: $1450.00 USD
Status: available
My mother my strength, my baby my strength. A thought shared with care, With one who truly cares, Can lift the weight, And show a brighter state. In vulnerability, we find strength, In openness, a deeper length, A bond forms, true and real, When thoughts are shared, and hearts can feel the bonds.
Why collect this work?
By compressing two figures into one interlocked silhouette, the painting presents care as bodily closeness while preserving each figure’s separate gaze.
- Ogunkanmbi states that his repeated bodily lines refer to scarification, family lineage and social identity. In this painting, that intention positions pattern as a sign of connection across generations.
- In the photograph, the adult’s frontal face anchors the composition while the child turns inward. Overlapping heads, arms and hands create a compact enclosure against the more loosely articulated landscape.
- The documented acrylic medium accommodates broad, opaque colour fields beside fine dark arcs. Here, those arcs continue across separate body parts, giving the embrace a shared visual structure.
- Dated 2025 and titled Sharing a personal thought (I), the work connects private disclosure with a direct portrait format. It provides a focused case for considering how family portraiture can picture dependence as mutual strength.
About the Artist
Babafemi Ogunkanmbi
Babafemi Ogunkanmbi is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Ibadan , NG.
Nationality: Nigerian
Currently, Babafemi Chooses to make use of lines (scarifications) which were scared all through the body of his art which is an embodiment of...
