FLORIAN OKWU
A sculpture offers me the opportunity to reshape the fabric of the surrounding world and crease it in ways which reveal this primal desire: To present traces of my life, obsessions and fears onto the unborn bodies of my work. Like me, sculptures are limited by their form, but its this physical limitation which opens the doors of understanding to the subleties hidden inside shape: The seeds embedded into every curve which grow for each person a different tree.
Hand-carved from a single block of walnut,
Private Commission.
Completed 03/2025
Hand-carved from a single block of walnut,
Private Commission.
Completed 10/2024
Graphited and framed in a Sumi-ink stained Ash frame.
RISD Thesis Project
Completed 05/2024
Hand-carved from 3 blocks of African Mahogany,
Finished with Sumi-Ink.
Featured at the 2023 Black Biennial (Sold)
Completed 12/2023
Hand-carved from a single block of African Mahogany,
(New Language)
Completed 03/2023