ARTIST'S statement
Journey of Manifestations & Transformation: Odi Oquosa -Community Artist / Shaman
My works, paintings, poems, photographs, and sculptures are my insights and outsights.
A way of life.
My work moves dynamically between realism and abstraction, bringing visions, thoughts, philosophy history, and culture from the conscious and unconscious into reality.
A journey of manifestation and transformation Odi Oquosa - community artist / Shaman.
My works are deeply influenced by my African roots. They include paintings, Wood and Stone sculptures, textiles, and poetry. They are a metaphoric and organic process of my own emotions. I work with the elements: earth, water, fire, and air, in symbolic forms and shades in union with our universe. My works are for the atonement of oneself and the collective. They are also available in 2D and 3D formats.
Being pregnant with visions and thoughts and giving birth to understanding on a canvas is an example. Then I can see and reason with it, to understand myself and my biases.
Manifestation sculpting using Zimbabwe opals and serpentine stones. Tree roots are my best to work with in carving. I unveil their soul and beings and vice versa transformation crafting with textiles, natural materials from art shops, and things I found on the seashores and woodlands.
I work with them to mend and brave myself and the universe. This gives my soul, my mind, and my body the Joy of understanding nature's language, which has given my world and myself an identity. Some of my works are political statements.
