Day 4432: Collaged Portraits and Comedy Wildlife Photography.

       

"Understanding": photo, collage, digital.

  

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Click: Genesis Owusu, WUTD

  

 

 

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Collaged Portraits by Emma Odumade 

“Call of Duty (A New Anthem)” (2024), charcoal, acrylic, ink, vintage photos, and black tea on canvas, 101.6 x 101.6 centimeters. 

Growing up in Lagos, Emma Odumade always drew cartoons and created collages on paper. As he continued to make work, his interest grew in highlighting the world around him, especially young people in his community.

“My Favorite Albert’s Theory” (2020-2021), charcoal, acrylic, ink, black tea, and sketch paper on canvas, 163 x 148 centimeters.

Odumade’s vibrant portraits and self-portraits, the latter of which he makes toward the end of every year, reflect a sense of unity, a search for self, love, and anticipation of the future. These particular works arose as “an attempt to have a diary—I never had one,” he says. “I needed to rediscover myself; see myself from an angle—from a third eye. My art became a mirror, through which I was a reflection.”

“A Wave to Remember” (2024), charcoal, acrylic, black tea, vintage photos on canvas,
 146.05 x 119.38 centimeters

“Three Sequences” (2021), charcoal, acrylic, black tea, ink, and old photos on canvas,

Scott Frier, “Nagging is a universal concept.”  (Image © the photographers and Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards)

Photo © Jacek Stankiewicz. All images courtesy of Comedy Wildlife 2023,

 

  

 

An 8 minute video, "Abstraction, here.

 

 

 

  

 

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