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This blog is the art & personal archive of studio artist Toyin Odutola.

General interests include:

Sequences.  Workaholism. Opulence and hyperactive detail in aesthetics. Craftsmanship (or should I say Virtuosity). Allocated Spaces for Empathy. Skin as Geography  and Personal Literature.  Androgyny. Portraiture. Aldo and Akanke. Zadie Smith. James Baldwin. The happiness and fulfillment derived from open architecture and design. Dichotomies. Naija Pride and Embarrassment. Toni Morrison. Audre Lorde. Asexuality. Minimalism. Cavernous Enclosures. Phallic Objectivism. Confessional art. Black womanhood as experience universal. The Physicality of things overriding the Cerebral. Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Decontexualized Narratives on the Post-Colonial, ”Hybrid Identities” and Race Relations. Tattoo Acquisition(s). Septum Rings. One’s inability to escape the need for creature comforts, such as country living. An unnatural obsession with cookies and other savory treats, &etc.

Other key sources and explorations:

A Neutral Place, which goes along the lines of my MFA Impetus. In other news, now and hereafter and Language Landscapes. And furthermore, on there being no country for women, and Of Ourselves, Of our Origins (Subjects of Art). 

And finally…

My current Artist Statement.