How to be Poor in the Head by Amarachi Okafor (Orie) | Artwork Archive

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Amarachi Okafor (Orie)
How to be Poor in the Head, 2020
Recovered cigarette filters (cork/tipping paper from smoked cigarettes), Adhesive, Stemspaper (handmade paper from local plants), Fabric, Text, Acrylic
Size (h w d): 78 x 105 x 3 cm. (h w d): 30.7 x 41.3 x 1.2 in.

When a nation is rich with resources and its’ people are poor, what are the leaders of this nation? – ‘poor in the head’!

Here then, the real issue is ‘Poverty of the head’ and not of the pocket.

Poor in the head or Poor of the head?

But when the majority of citizens are poor in their pockets and weak, then everyone is poor. Everyone is poor in the head. Everyone! No Dropouts!

Subject Matter: Experimental
Collections: 2. Recovered Cork Paper/ Filters from stubbed cigarettes: Materiality, 5. Fibre, Paper: Materiality and the local, 6. Fibre: Materiality, Threads, 8. Text Materiality, 10. nkụkọ na égwū: Acrylic. Tempera

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