Portal Monolith - 2021
With this work, I return to mark-making as a fundamental process for language and expression. I use this piece as a metaphor for how language can provide a portal into cultures, places and people, while reflecting back to us who we are. Ásùsù expressed in this form represents an open invitation to brings those witnessing into the recognition of something we all can relate to, our intrinsic need to express and to project ourselves as a means of connecting with each other.
Mirror and Plexiglass - 4ft by 2ft - 12kg
Stand - 65 x 45 x 72 (cm) - 5.9kg
Images by Olabisi Olaleye
Ásùsù is a mark-making technique I’ve been developing since 2016, as a way to express both my conscious and unconscious thought processes. This language style is made of single lines characterized by number counts and a change of direction, a collection of these gestures or characters is called a script. I have been making several of these scripts using various experimental techniques and materials to challenge what my natural impulses are with mark-making, and in the process also investigating if any patterns emerge. I have developed Ásùsù to become an interactive process where the audience is invited to adopt the techniques and make scripts for themselves, thus alluding to the open-ended nature of making, while reiterating that the focus of the work is on doing. Ásùsù subverts the purpose of language a little as it is non-interpretable and inherently dynamic.
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