What About Me? by Oluwasayo Olaore Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Acrylic Dimensions: 36 x 36 in Year: 2025 Price: $2200.00 USD Status: available Am I just a shadow left behind? Forgotten soul without a mind? Notice me or your ears fades off my silent plea? Will you still overlook the heart in me? Poem by Oluwasayo Olaore describing the artwork Why collect this work?A monumental headpiece commands more space than the sitter’s fragmented face, turning portraiture into a study of how visibility can both express and obscure personhood. Olaore describes his practice as exploring emotion and cultural legacy through angular contours and elaborate headgear. Here, that visual language concentrates attention above and across the face.The square composition sets a sharply faceted profile against a broad purple field. At left, outlined fragments appear to disperse, while the saturated lips and direct eye retain the figure’s presence.Catalogued as acrylic on a 36-inch-square support, the painting uses areas of opaque colour, fine linear divisions and patterned passages to separate the sitter into competing visual registers.The artist-supplied poem asks whether its speaker has been overlooked. Encountered alongside the uneven distribution of detail, that question makes recognition itself, rather than identity alone, the painting’s central issue. About the ArtistOluwasayo Olaore Oluwasayo Olaore is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Lagos, NG. Nationality: Nigerian Oluwasayo Olaore
