He equally built sand castles, made birds, airplanes and ships with waste papers, repurposed fluorescent bulbs as antennas to have clear images on television and others.
The four essays grapple with the dynamics of Popoola’s art and life as each writer maps an aspect of his imaginative journey from infancy to adulthood.The essays provide insightful readings of Popoola’s metal sculpture from structural and cultural perspectives. While they describe the welded metals as sculptures, they also acknowledge the painterly sensitivity of the surface treatments.
Speaking at the launch, the artist said, “I create a piece of work that have varieties of meaning in one piece so, the synergy is coming together of different objects, ferrous metal and nonferrous metal and cultural items.”
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