Acrylic on canvas, 80 × 60 cm

 

This work reflects on what is carried across generations — wounds, memory, and the strength to heal. Two figures stand in quiet dialogue, where the past meets the present and pain is slowly transformed into guidance. The red ground becomes both womb and witness, holding intensity but also the possibility of renewal.

 

Scar-like patterns recall ila, the Yoruba practice of scarification, here reimagined as threads of wisdom flowing through the body and into the fabric of cloth. These marks speak of belonging, anchoring identity even through displacement. The painting asks what we choose to pass forward — silence or voice, division or unity — and how healing, when embraced, ripples outward through families and communities as a living inheritance.