God's Particle - To Nurture by Hosea Benjamin
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Medium: photography
Dimensions: 28 x 40 in
Edition production year: 2025
Edition of 5
Price: $1000.00 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?
A broad-brimmed hat replaces the face with a flattened oval, shifting this photograph from individual portraiture toward a study of bodily support, concealment, and symbolic maternity.
- Benjamin’s profile describes “Afrography” as his approach to African memory, identity, and culture through portraiture, symbolism, and research. In this work, withheld facial identity gives the body’s pose unusual interpretive weight.
- The kneeling figure braces both arms toward the lower corners while the torso turns away. This triangular arrangement appears stable, but its extended limbs also make nurture legible as exertion rather than passive tenderness.
- The documented photographic medium fixes a selective distribution of visibility. In the supplied image, light defines the hat, shoulders, spine, and forearms, while the head and parts of the torso merge into the dark field.
- The 2025 title, “God’s Particle - To Nurture,” and accompanying description frame motherhood through cosmic creation. The work is significant for testing that expansive claim against one obscured, materially burdened body.
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.
