What is the Nigerian boy dreaming about? And where is his airplane flying to?
Busy Brain
Adeyemy Demola
Acrylic on canvas, 100х76
Nigeria, Lagos
Acrylic on canvas, 100х76
Nigeria, Lagos
How does the traveller see it?
(Fragment of a post from a Facebook page)
Artist Adeyemy Demola has his own vision of happiness. He called this painting “Busy Brain”. It depicts a dream about the future. All the elements of prosperity are in the boy’s head. What is the logical – perhaps even logistical – connection between them? The artist drew the plane in the sky and the house on the ground. Natural. But I imagine the following sequence in the boy’s mind: fly out of Nigeria, receive a Western education, make money and then build himself a house.
But an upside-down interpretation is possible as well. Build a house, make money, get an education and goodbye Nigeria!
What do you think?
But an upside-down interpretation is possible as well. Build a house, make money, get an education and goodbye Nigeria!
What do you think?
And what do you think?