Monday, August 25, 2008

urchin



© Obododimma Oha, August 2008

prostrate shadow, taller
than his dream
smaller
than his worries


--- Obododimma Oha

fotosinthesis



© Obododimma Oha, August 2008

fotoSTart
thisendlessscrawlscrollingartwithartwitheartsoheavy
thesiseizurearthstorms
srawl art
scrawl a(r)t
(s)crawl a(r)t
scrawlers...

---Obododimma Oha

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Competing Signs

Photo credit Kimberley AdyMcDonald, 2008.


Signs behind signs between signs beside signs

Space plus minus space

No, those competing meanings value

The difference between rowdy thoughts

And kindling economics


-- Obododimma Oha



Saturday, July 19, 2008

Transition point in the syntax of video image capturing


(Images manipulated and captured by Obododimma Oha from the video presentation of Mike Ejeagha's narrative music "Onye Ori Utaba")


The griot behind his fiction
Next to & nested with the otherness he performs
So, let us collocate the icons
To speak a deviant language

--- Obododimma Oha

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

repose


© Obododimma Oha, November 2007.



where the image speaks

words are silent


Monday, June 30, 2008

Thursday, May 15, 2008

darksome

© Obododimma Oha, May 2008.
darksome de-
signs,
thrills of the dream & the reeling dust
--- Obododimma Oha

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Patriarch & Matriarch in Dialogue

© Obododimma Oha, May 2008.

Patriarch & Matriarch in dialogue
The end of sex, the beginning of humanity
One-without-otherness
-- Obododimma Oha

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

housing a curious glance

© Obododimma Oha, May 2008.

the houses watch how the rambling streets tell their myths
the curious glance at running meanings
last things that hold nothing
in our crowded imagi/nations
--- Obododimma Oha

dis/embodiment

*Photo by Obododimma Oha, February 2008.

ART sighs deep & sees
The networks of our pretexts
Becomes the Science
That removes the garments of our flesh
& shows how
Each doctor looks like a patient
--- Obododimma Oha
*(The original scupture by Chinyere Ndubisi is on display in the premises of the Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos, Nigeria)

From Argument to Argument

By Obododimma Oha Have you ever participated in an endless argument, or argument that leads to another argument? Maybe you have. Just read t...