Twist and Twirls

It can be very interesting when one pauses and imagines how change can be simultaneous; how rapid the shift from natural to synthetic is; how human inventions have practically reduced the world to a size of a mall, how these arouse a sense of border-less communality; how information and images are transmitted in space within seconds and how it all affects human lives.  As these changes broaden the scope of life and make life more fascinating and interesting, our society become comfortable living a simulated life than living their own lives.

It is improbable not to accept that science and technology have made the world a better place. Humans, no doubt have explored the ether striking a balance between a world full of fantasies and that full of realities. People travel outrageous distances in air within hours; and supposedly soon, there will be a technology that brings about teleportation -the same distance will be traveled in splits of a second. That is, we will no longer travel by air but with air. Each day, people become more “androitic” -minds are controlled and vibration of thoughts coordinated and accelerated like striking keys on a keyboard. Hands refuse to till the soil for natural food as technological and scientific processes are devised to enhance artificial supplies. Photographic prints of nature has negated the importance of planting trees and the production of synthetic materials refutes organic substance. Ours is an age rattled by natural disasters since pollution has become a lifestyle and our ecosystem increasingly endangered. Indeed, there is a shift from conscious, deliberate protection of ecosystem to unconscious ecoterrorism.

In the light of these, I tend to interrogate why development -as sweet as it may sound and is, parodies danger, making the predictable become unpredictable. How development affects climate and environmental change, turning globalization to global warming. Imagine, why would discoveries and inventions in science and technology, create distortions to natural order? This simply implies that growth in industry and technology is synonymous to an outbreak of disease, injury, illness, death and destruction of environment: a consequence of improper management of wastes (solid, liquid and gas). Does this mean that a balance cannot be struck?

This body of work is an allegorical portrayal of relationships between human and ether; industry and consumption; synthetic and organic; simulated and real life; distance and intimacy; consciousness and unconsciousness and; time and space. It explores the relationship between gravitational energies and how it affects the human planet. A process of how the vibrations of thoughts, water, sound, stars, mountains, birds and animals among others are translated into human experiences. An experience responsible for discoveries and inventions: a nucleus of modern civilization, technology and development. My works also explore the concepts- consumption and consumerism, an aspect of social culture that has infiltrated classism into every society.

I incarnate my ideas through a relentless experimental process incorporating organic and inorganic forms. I use processed materials like plastic bags, wood, glass and metal.  Though I work as a painter, experimenting with these media heightens sculptural forms, contours, textures, lines and shapes in my works.