FACELESS PORTRAITURE

Studying tribal marking led to the expansion of my practice to sculpture, exploring the physicality of skin and scarification with heavy inspiration from Ife art and emphasising the impact of colonialism and slave trade by shrinking and literally flattening identity to marketable objects - tiles.

I explore the malleability of skin through terracotta. The skin forgives but never forgets. The scars convey its memory but also the expressions of individuality that resist blackness as a monolith but display the effect of this flattening experience.

This is another ongoing series because the concept is still relevant to my practice.