While I hope I breathe (ii) by Babafemi Ogunkanmbi Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Acrylic on canvas Dimensions: 27 x 37 in Year: 2023 Status: available While I breathe, I hope to be great in a Solace Land. Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness and hassles. There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. ......Let keep our hope Alive!🤞 Why collect this work?A patterned blue figure stands before an enlarged grey shadow stripped of detail, setting elaborate self-definition against an anonymous double. Ogunkanmbi’s statement identifies his repeated lines with scarification, family lineage and social identity. That intention clarifies why pattern covers the figure from face to hands rather than remaining decorative background.In the photograph, the frontal figure wears a top based on the United States flag and bright green trousers. A cropped landscape, divided wall and checkerboard floor place this assertive body among competing pictorial codes, while the blank shadow exceeds its outline.The catalogue documents acrylic on canvas. Here, the medium supports a composition organized through bounded colour areas, intricate linear repetition and a broad silhouette, although the photograph cannot establish exact colour or surface texture.The title and artist-supplied description frame hope as persistence through difficulty. Encountering the work beside that language sharpens its unresolved question: whether visibility comes from the figure’s chosen signs or remains constrained by the simplified projection behind it. About the ArtistBabafemi 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...
