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Oyan (Breast), Ìnù mí dùn | 2025

Tomilola Olumide

Sculpture (kiln-fired enamel glass on silversmithed copper metal) 

 

A kiln-cast Enamel breast sculpture created through Silversmithing on Copper material. It physically depicts the sentimentality of the agbalumos fruits’ introduction to my life. 'A baby to a teet. In my younger years in boarding school, when I first came across it, it reminded me of suckling on my mother's teet as a baby and being ‘nourished, feeling safe, cared for, and nurtured.’ I resonate with the action of eating agbalumo fruit with these sentiments till this day as an adult. The enamelled breast plate is a physical representation of 'the organ of nourishment and the above sentiments.

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Agbalumo seeds (Origin), Ìnù mí dùn | 2025

Agbalumo fruit, Ìnù mí dùn

Agbalumo seeds (Inside), Ìnù mí dùn | 2025

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