Moyo Okediji,
Title: They Arrested and Incarcerated the Women’s Leader.
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Date: 2021
Size: 38’x48″
Her case remains in court while she is out on bail.
Knowing that we have only a few decades on earth, is it not crucial to be like Lady K, to have a passion focusing on the liberation of your people from oppression, and to give your time and attention to this passion?
There is no fear except the one we make up.
The fear we harbor is us.
On this planet, there is nothing to lose.
My patient is dead. I pulled out the stethoscope, and thermometer, took the temperature, measured the…
The downfall of a man is not the end of his wife.
Make una softly-softly for end-of-year parties o.
I went into my garage and found a harvest of forgotten canvases waiting for me.
This corona break has given me some time to look at what I already have produced.
This is the last painting I did in 1992, just before leaving Nigeria.
You will notice that it is made from gouache.
Title: …But We Hungry
Acrylic on canvas
2021
One Her Independence Day
I sent her
a flower vase
spun of orphic hair
with strands of gold,
each line gilded
with a ray of solar tint,
tightly woven into a dreamy jar
with slender pythonic fingers,
and detailed with combed titanic glints
boasting ornamental strings of rubies: