Bright Room: Illuminate by Amarachi Okafor (Orie) | Artwork Archive

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Amarachi Okafor (Orie)
Bright Room: Illuminate, 2019
Recovered cigarette filters (cork/tipping paper from smoked cigarettes), Adhesive, Stemspaper (handmade paper from local plants), Fabric, Pastel, Thread
98 x 98 cm (38.58 x 38.58 in)
Framed: 111 x 113 cm (43.7 x 44.49 in)

Illuminate, is the first of the Bright Room Series with which I comment that we must always try and maintain good spirits and to lift others up. Happiness is a community project. We can build up one another.

© Amarachi Okafor (Orie), 2009

Subject Matter: Experimental
Collections: 2. Recovered Cork Paper/ Filters from stubbed cigarettes: Materiality, 5. Fibre, Paper: Materiality and the local, 6. Fibre: Materiality, Threads, 7. Fabric and Cloth: Container and Containment Series, 10. nkụkọ na égwū: Acrylic. Tempera

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