The breathe of time (I) by Babafemi Ogunkanmbi
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 41 x 59 in
Year: 2023
Price: $2500.00 USD
Status: available
With every breath, a promise to keep, A tapestry woven where secrets run deep. Through laughter and sorrow, we find our embrace, etching our names in life’s gentle trace. For time may extend, but it also will fold, Wrapping our stories with courage and gold. In each moment lived, a lesson to find, The breath of existence, both tender and kind.
Why collect this work?
Repeated dark lines spread across the frontal figure, turning the body into a patterned record of identity while preserving the force of her direct gaze.
- Ogunkanmbi’s statement identifies the markings as references to scarification, family lineage, beauty, and social identity. This intention informs the motif, though its effect remains open to interpretation.
- In the photograph, folded hands and a symmetrical pose convey composure. The looping hairstyle extends beyond the head like an emblem, while flowers and outlined leaves blur the distinction between portrait and decorative field.
- Catalogued as acrylic on canvas from 2023, at 41 by 59 inches, the painting combines broad areas of contrasting colour with dense, finely articulated lines.
- The title and accompanying catalogue verse frame time as an accumulation of lived moments. Set against the figure’s poised stillness, that framing makes the marked body legible as a record rather than a fixed likeness.
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...
