Title: Low Hanging Fruits

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 121.5cm x 91.6cm 

Year: 2023

Description: I see Africa as a beautiful innocent maiden all polished up in a fertile ever green land with blue skies seated majestically on the Elephant; big, bold and endowed with super strength but now reduced to almost a footstool. Attractive with cowries (shell money) wrapped around her slender neck as glowing jewelry upon her dark ebony skin holding in her hand flowers like she is seeking for love. She has become like a tree, fixated, frozen in time bearing low hanging sweet succulent fruits for the world to come pluck off easily with vain promise to love her while a familiar bird sings a melodious tale fraught with lies, deception, ignorance that She is helpless, weak and needs artificial support from outside it's continent to shine, stay evergreen and beautiful.

Artist: Timi Kakandar