Fine-Artist & Sculptor
Vancouver, BC
studio@okflo.com



About



   Florian Okwu is a sculptor from Los Angeles, CA, who works primarily with wood to create modern idols inspired from his own imagination and internal mythos. He explores the human condition, calling to ancient relics, imagined deities, and forever questions related to mortality, belief structure, and purpose:

“I find most conceptual inspirations from my interest in anthropology, archaeology, ancient architecture, and biological symmetry. Alongside my own experiences, dreams and memories, I’ve built a personal aesthetic language that materializes the imagination, providing me with a culture that is wholly my own. I’m free to populate this civilization, to my hearts content, with the structures, creatures and populations that exist inside.

My sculptures function as a kind of life journal: They chapter the milestones of my life and learnings, acting as proofs of my attempts to explore and strengthen my relationship with instinct: This innate drive to nurture new cultures and languages, ornamentalize our lives, prove our existences, worship our myths, and imprint our identities onto the materials of a chaotic world. I try to bring these primal urges to the surface: Inviting the subconscious dweller, ruler of our passions, obsessions and fears into a world intent on divorcing form from soul.”

   Florian also works under the alias “okflo”, allowing him to commercialize sculptural objects, furniture, and explore alternate materials through smaller-scale handmade collections and creatures.




    

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For general interests, please contact: studio@okflo.com