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If Colours Were Songs Artwork

Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku

Ghana

Mixed Media, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 120 W x 60 H x 2 D in

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Bold. Impressive. Vibrant, Intense. Natural. Over the course of a month, I went out each day to many different places to just look at people and observe them. I wanted to see what they wore, how they giggled at each other, how they cried during funerals, how they held hands and crossed the street, how they smiled and said “oh, that’s okay”, how the market women sang whiles mixing it up with trade jargons, how passengers on the bus fought the driver over increased fares. It was revealing. This painting is about people and regardless of where each colour finds itself,they all blend together to produce almost at a glance an instant melody that self composes and draws one in to listen and observe. The colours seem to be moving, indicating the passage of time and life. They tell of the fact people love movement just as music does. The landscape size is chosen intentionally to portray a sense of journey and the characterisation of colour. It is the colour that gives life to the music and not the other way round. The viewer is meant to feel that they could write their own songs in the high hues and sing lows in the dark hues. The contrast is striking because while there is so much energy in the painting, there is also an unbelievable sense of peace and calmness that the artist does so well at portraying. There’s no such thing as too much colour for me and I want the world to experience that through my paintings. There are bright yellows that tell about merry making, saturated reds that provoke all the emotion of love, warm pinks that are best for the season of marriage, blues that connote a deep sense of calmness and belonging and dark places like brown that tell where we would eventually end up, black which is powerful and supreme in space and grey which indicate a solemn moment of reflection. You have the space to define your own happiness.

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Mixed Media:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:120 W x 60 H x 2 D in

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I am a Contemporary Ghanaian Textile artist based in Accra. I am a self driven creative who considers himself fluid in his practice, constantly working to evolve and push the boundaries of what I do. I work primarily with Upcycled Textile waste incorporating painting and sculpture as form of transitional framework for my material to verbalise what is trapped inside of it. I feel sometimes the vision of the soul dictates the structure, defence or vulnerability of the work and in other times I have to steward the vision. I am just a steward of the visions of my soul. I can guide it with my hands but I cannot control what it wants to say. Freedom is essential to my soul as breath is to my life and I try as much as possible to articulate that in the context of my practice and beyond. I could never tell if any of my projects were and are successful because I feel the moment you label something, it only exists in the boundary you've given it. You do not have to understand what I create or even try to give meaning to it because if it's visual language strikes you, then I must be saying something that your soul recognises but your mind hasn't quite grasped yet. I feel sometimes the vision of the soul dictates the structure, defence or vulnerability of the work and in other times I have to steward the vision. I am just a steward of the visions of my soul. The day I become truly free is the day my hands will be in control. It's the day I can truly describe what I create.

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