Wrapped by Oluwasayo Olaore
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 12 x 12 in
Year: 2025
Price: $850.00 USD
Status: available
With open hand and quiet grace, We meet the gift that time will place Not wrapped in gold or tied with string, But often shaped by unseen wings. Some gifts arrive with joy and light, While others veil the soul in night. Yet all, in time, reveal their role Each one a lantern for the soul. To receive is not to grasp or cling, But to make space for what life brings To trust that even silent seeds Will bloom into our deepest needs. So open wide your heart and eyes, The next phase waits, a vast sunrise. What you require, you will receive Just breathe it in. Just dare believe.
Why collect this work?
An angular, open hand reaches toward a wrapped box without touching it, turning the space between offering and reception into the painting’s central tension.
- Olaore describes his practice as an inquiry into emotion and social action. Here, that concern is concentrated in a restrained gesture rather than a facial expression or narrative scene.
- In the photograph, the outlined, fragmented hand occupies the lower left while the small box floats higher and farther right. A violet ribbon rises beyond the frame, making the gift appear connected to something unseen and leaving its arrival unresolved.
- The documented acrylic-on-canvas medium permits both broad translucent-looking blue passages and sharper opaque contours. Their contrast separates the atmospheric ground from the hand’s mechanical geometry, although the photograph cannot confirm surface texture or exact colour.
- Dated 2025 and measuring 12 by 12 inches according to the catalogue, Wrapped is a focused study of receiving: the visible interval between hand and package keeps possession suspended, allowing generosity, expectation, and uncertainty to coexist.
About the Artist
Oluwasayo Olaore
Oluwasayo Olaore is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Lagos, NG.
Nationality: Nigerian
Oluwasayo Olaore
