FLORIAN OKWU
A sculpture offers an artist the opportunity to reshape the fabric of the world around them, to crease it in ways which reveal this primal desire: To present our lives, obsessions and fears onto the unborn bodies of our own work. Like us, sculptures are limited by their form, but it is 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.
Commissioned by RISD President, Crystal Williams.
Completed 10/2024
Graphited and framed in a Sumi-ink stained Ash frame.
RISD Thesis Project
Completed 05/2024
Hand-carved from a single block of walnut,
Private Commission.
Completed 03/2025
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,
Birth of a New Language
Completed 03/2023
Giant leopard moth (found) and moss.
Featured at Release Point, West Rutland VT
Completed 07/2023