Becoming Light by Tayo Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 120 x 140 cm Year: 2024 Status: available Butterflies gather around an upward-facing figure as refracted light divides the face into shifting planes of blue and green. Transformation is pictured not as a clean escape from the past, but as a gradual change of state. The body remains underwater while signs of metamorphosis appear around it, suggesting that becoming begins internally before it can be seen at the surface. Why collect this work?A steeply tilted head anchors the composition while bubbles, butterflies and divided illumination suspend the figure between submersion and emergence, making transformation appear incomplete rather than triumphant. The artist states that underwater bodies and refracted light signify pressure and change. Here, that intention is realized through the figure’s continued physical presence beneath the surrounding activity.In the photograph, dark hair and shadow mass along the left edge, while the face rises toward a concentrated golden light. Three pale butterflies interrupt the portrait at different scales.Catalogued as oil on canvas, the medium permits gradual transitions across the blue-green face alongside sharply defined bubbles and wings, holding atmospheric depth and crisp symbolic detail together.At 120 by 140 centimetres, according to the catalogue, the painting sets a large human profile against small signs of metamorphosis. It is particularly useful for considering whether change is an event or an extended condition. About the ArtistTayo Tayo is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Ufa, RU. Nationality: Nigerian My paintings begin with the face and the body, but I am less interested in likeness than in what pressure reveals.
