Sharing a personal thought (II) by Babafemi Ogunkanmbi
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 28 x 38 cm
Year: 2024
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?
A piggyback pose makes care a matter of bodily weight and balance, while the stacked faces remain distinct through their different directions of attention.
- Ogunkanmbi’s accompanying text identifies mother and baby as sources of strength for one another. The painting supports its emphasis on care through physical carrying, without making mutual feeling directly visible.
- The foreground figure supports a smaller figure whose trousered legs cross the shoulders and end in bright shoes. One face looks outward while the other turns aside, separating individual attention within their close arrangement.
- The documented acrylic on canvas permits sharply bounded passages of saturated blue and orange. At 28 by 38 cm, the compressed vertical composition concentrates attention on faces, limbs and contact rather than the lightly rendered landscape.
- Encountered within family portraiture, this 2024 painting provides a concrete study of care as exertion: affection is conveyed less through exchanged gazes than through the carrier’s supporting posture and the child’s settled weight.
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...
