Braided Not Broken II by Patience Adekunle
Explore Mondoir Studio
Medium: Electronic cables and fabric on canvas
Dimensions: 20 x 24 in
Year: 2026
Price: $2650.00 USD
Status: available
Braided Not Broken is a celebration of strength, beauty, and resilience through hair. This work tells the story of women who carry culture, crown, and confidence in every braid. More than a hairstyle, braids are armor, history, and healing. We are not broken, we are braided. Rooted, styled, and rising.
Why collect this work?
The portrait makes braiding both subject and structure: dense coils surround a face assembled from clipped linear fragments, turning resilience into a contrast between visual weight and careful articulation.
- The artist profile identifies Adekunle as a Nigerian artist working in Ibadan and describes her use of recycled electronic cable to address identity, strength, and environmental responsibility. Here, that practice connects personal adornment with discarded technology.
- In the photograph, a frontal figure meets the gaze directly. Dark, rounded braids extend beyond the shoulders, while the face is mapped by tightly aligned fragments against an apparently blue field. Red and white fabric sharpens the lower edge.
- The documented medium is electronic cables and fabric on canvas. Cable permits both bundled volume and short, directional marks, allowing hair to read as mass while facial features retain graphic precision.
- Encountered alongside portraiture or reuse-based art, this work tests how a material associated with circulation and obsolescence can carry culturally specific claims about hair, continuity, and self-presentation.
About the Artist
Patience Adekunle
Patience Adekunle is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: mixed-media ( electronic cables and wire on canvas) . Based in Lagos , NG.
Nationality: Nigerian
My Art champions sustainability, strength, and the resilience of African communities. Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
