A Child, A Care, A Quiet Love by Iyanuoluwa Babalola
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Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 60.96 x 91.44 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $500.00 USD
Status: available
“A Child, A Care, A Quiet Love” explores healing as something tender and intentional. It reflects how a child longs to be cared for with balance, gentleness, and awareness. Just as the boy holds the bird, not too tight to harm it and not too loose to lose it, care must exist in that delicate in-between. Like holding an egg firm enough to protect, yet soft enough to preserve true nurturing requires sensitivity. This work suggests that real care is not loud or forceful, but found in softness, safety, and trust. It reminds us that love, in its purest form, heals by holding, not hurting, and by guiding, not controlling.
Why collect this work?
The painting concentrates its brightest light in the small bird cupped between the child’s hands, making careful touch, rather than facial expression, the central measure of care.
- The artist profile describes Babalola’s practice as addressing healing, childhood experience, and moral teaching. Here, that concern becomes legible through a simple physical problem: how to hold something vulnerable without confining it.
- In the photograph, the bowed head, curved shoulders, and enclosing hands direct attention inward. Dark blues compress the surrounding space, while the bird’s radiating white form interrupts that enclosure with a concentrated point of tenderness.
- Catalogued as acrylic on canvas, the work uses sharply separated blue and white passages to model the figure and create an apparent glow. Acrylic makes such opaque layering and crisp tonal contrast possible, though the photograph cannot establish surface texture.
- The artist describes the grip as balanced between harm and loss. Encountering the work alongside images of protection, custody, or childhood could sharpen discussion of care as an active negotiation between closeness and restraint.
About the Artist
Iyanuoluwa Babalola
Iyanuoluwa Babalola is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Painting/ Acrylic and on Canvas. Based in Lagos, NG.
Nationality: Nigerian
My art explores healing, identity, cultural memory, and moral consciousness through expressive painting and visual storytelling.
