Enough lll by Flourish Oyinlola
Explore Mondoir Studio
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 10 x 12 in
Year: 2026
Price: $150.00 USD
Status: available
The internal pressure many women experience to meet the expectations attached to every role they occupy. The desire to be a good daughter, partner, friend, mother, or professional can gradually become a constant pursuit of perfection, where self-worth becomes tied to performance and approval. The work reflects on the emotional cost of this mindset the tendency to suppress personal needs, hide vulnerability, and feel inadequate when expectations are not met. It challenges the belief that a woman must constantly prove her value through perfection and instead calls for self-acceptance. Every woman is already enough. By embracing authenticity instead of perfection, she can live with greater freedom, confidence, and self-acceptance. I use this piece as an invitation to let go of impossible standards and celebrate the beauty of being unapologetically human.
Why collect this work?
A continuous honeycomb grid binds figure and ground; its persistence across the face makes social structure appear inseparable from individual identity, while the sitter remains distinctly present.
- Oyinlola states that the beehive functions in his practice as a metaphor for women’s resilience, nurture, and community. In this portrait, that declared symbolism also permits a reading of collective expectations as pressure.
- The photographed composition places a blue-toned woman in formal clothing against a yellow field. Pale cells punctuate her brow, cheeks, and nose, directing attention toward her sidelong gaze without dissolving her likeness into pattern.
- The documented oil-on-canvas medium permits strong opacity and narrow tonal changes. Variations among adjacent blue cells model facial volume within the rigid hexagonal scheme.
- At the documented 10 by 12 inches, Enough lll compresses a broad theme of gendered expectation into an intimate portrait. It can sharpen a collection’s examination of how repeated visual systems carry both communal and restrictive meanings.
About the Artist
Flourish Oyinlola
Flourish Oyinlola is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Visual Artist Geometry pattern | Bee hive 🐝 . Based in Ibadan, NG.
Nationality: Nigerian
My practice explore the connection between nature and humanity, using the beehive as a metaphor for women's strength, resilience, and...
