God's Particle - To Birth by Hosea Benjamin
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Medium: photography
Dimensions: 20 x 28 in
Edition production year: 2024
Edition of 10
Price: $380.00 USD
Status: available
Just as the universe expands from a single spark, mothers birth and nurture life into existence. They are the silent architects of beginnings, shaping breath and bone with unseen care. In their embrace, worlds are formed—tender, vast, and enduring—echoing the cosmic rhythm of creation through every heartbeat and lullaby.
Why collect this work?
The figure’s turned back, compressed kneeling pose and concealed face recast birth as contained potential rather than a literal event, holding bodily specificity against symbolic meaning.
- In his supplied statement, Hosea Benjamin describes photography, portraiture and symbolism as means of reconsidering African narratives. Here, the title and description frame the figure through creation and motherhood, an intended allegory rather than an identity established by the image.
- Against a plain ground, the figure faces away, with braided hair covering the head and one arm folded across the torso. Low lighting traces the back and limbs, while the soles and lowered hand orient the pose toward the camera.
- Photography fixes a carefully bounded viewpoint in which no facial expression or surrounding narrative is available. The sparse setting concentrates attention on silhouette, gesture and tonal contrast.
- Catalogued as a 2024 photograph measuring 20 by 28 inches, the work provides a focused encounter with the tension between portrait and allegory: a particular body remains present even as the artist assigns it a cosmic account of origin.
About the Artist
Hosea Benjamin
Hosea Benjamin is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: photography. Based in Lekki, NG.
Nationality: Nigerian
My work explores memory, identity, and culture through Afrography, a philosophy I created to document African stories with depth and intention.
