The Child king Painting

This is part of a series of 4 works that utilize portraiture, expression and symbols to tell a particular story, in this case, the use of insibidi. Arranged in the right other, each piece tells a part of a larger story which is continued in another piece. These descriptions don't give full details of the entire story due to it's length but gives necessary information as to why the artist chose to tell it. The need to communicate ideas and narratives using the insibidi symbol. It combines the larger symbol on the painting with the smaller one on the face to read a particular meaning. It was a language of a secret society of men, first used by women, a language of mystery. A system of symbols is estimated to have been around from 400 to 1400 CE. It is a language of contradiction. In it's prime, it United on the common people at the same time it distinguished the elites from the rest. It gets it's name from the word meaning "language of dread". But most of the preserved writing we have from the ancestral era tells stories of love, friendship, relationship, intimacy, scandals and humor. It is a "dead" language, though today it's spiritual elements are more alive than ever. The third part of the tale ; "The child king" as a continuation from the second part sees a problem encountered as she was too young, they wondered if someone of her age could rule, but they had no option as she was the only successor and tradition demands that she takes over. She became a king, not only as a female, but as a very young girl.