Dem Belleful
Title: Dem Belleful
Medium: acrylic on canvas
date: 2021
48×36″
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Title: Dem Belleful
Medium: acrylic on canvas
date: 2021
48×36″
Make more children.
Many, many, many, more children.
More and more and more.
Àmọ̀tẹ́kùn kids.
Let every Amotekun woman produce ten.
Let every Amotekun man make 50.
There is food in the land to feed them.
Samuel Toba did this portrait of me today. It’s gorgeous. Do you think I should hug…
One day, one day!
Soja go come.
Soja go do.
Soja go catch Don’t Climb.
Walahi, Talahi
OLÓDÙMARÈ is what I have written here, using the Yoruba alphabet that I just designed. It…
Writing at the coffee shop.
Don’t wait for euphoria before you write, paint, play.
Euphoria lives only in your heart
Your heart gets broken and hurts
But it can handle it
How does one translate ÌKÚNLẸ̀ ABIYAMỌ into English, yet retain the picture that that term conveys in the original Yoruba context?
The word “childbirth,” which is the direct translation of ÌKÚNLẸ̀ ABIYAMỌ does not give the picture of the kneeling woman, giving birth to a child.