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Title: Excavations of the First Dynasty
Medium: acrylic on canvas
date: 2021
DAILY DEVOTION: ÌWÚRE
Gbogbo igi kọ́ lejò ń gùn (Not all trees can be scaled by the snake)
Gbogbo omi kọ́ lẹdun ń mu (The colobus monkey doesn’t drink all types of water)
Àyàfi wèrè, àyàfi dìgbòlugi (Only the insane, only the raving lunatic)
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Smart beyond compare, the beauty of Nigerian women slowly grows on you, though for me, it is always love at first sight.
ANIMAL FARM IN BELGIAN KONGO
Title: ANIMAL FARM IN BELGIAN KONGO
acrylic on canvas, 2020
I’ve been working on this painting for one month.
The journey has been long
on a bumpy road
This is too easy, right?
This is too easy, right?
Do you see this person?
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I wonder.
TO MY GRANDDAUGHTER ON GRANDPAS DAY
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I landed a fish last summer.
It begged me to catch and release.
I said I was hungry
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“We are all fishes”, it reminded me,
“angling in a lake of love.”
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Excavations of the First Dynasty
Moyo Okediji
Title: Excavations of the First Dynasty
Medium: acrylic on canvas
date: 2021
DAILY DEVOTION: ÌWÚRE
Gbogbo igi kọ́ lejò ń gùn (Not all trees can be scaled by the snake)
Gbogbo omi kọ́ lẹdun ń mu (The colobus monkey doesn’t drink all types of water)
Àyàfi wèrè, àyàfi dìgbòlugi (Only the insane, only the raving lunatic)
THE MOST WONDERFUL WOMEN IN THE WORLD
The most wonderful women in the world–Nigerian women–at the Winter Olympics in South Korea.
Smart beyond compare, the beauty of Nigerian women slowly grows on you, though for me, it is always love at first sight.
ANIMAL FARM IN BELGIAN KONGO
Title: ANIMAL FARM IN BELGIAN KONGO
acrylic on canvas, 2020
I’ve been working on this painting for one month.
The journey has been long
on a bumpy road
This is too easy, right?
This is too easy, right?
Do you see this person?
It’s easy to see who is hiding in the picture and what the fellow is doing, isn’t it?
I wonder.
TO MY GRANDDAUGHTER ON GRANDPAS DAY
TO MY GRANDDAUGHTER ON GRANDPAS DAY
I landed a fish last summer.
It begged me to catch and release.
I said I was hungry
It said better to hunger than kill
“We are all fishes”, it reminded me,
“angling in a lake of love.”
I saw the same fish this summer
Excavations of the First Dynasty
Moyo Okediji
Title: Excavations of the First Dynasty
Medium: acrylic on canvas
date: 2021
DAILY DEVOTION: ÌWÚRE
Gbogbo igi kọ́ lejò ń gùn (Not all trees can be scaled by the snake)
Gbogbo omi kọ́ lẹdun ń mu (The colobus monkey doesn’t drink all types of water)
Àyàfi wèrè, àyàfi dìgbòlugi (Only the insane, only the raving lunatic)