https://foundation.app/@ohale/defi-ance-hope-89408
Today in collaboration with my friends at OHALE, I am excited to be launching my first NFT.
10 Years ago, if there were any 3 words people in my close circle would use to describe my disposition to the country, it would have been ; Positive, Patriotic and Passionate. Have these changed? Maybe … It has been a struggle in the last 5 years. It was different when I was younger and didn’t have a child. Regardless of the chaos and dark days, I believed that things were in the process of turning out great. I believed that things needed to get dark before the day sprung. Now that I have a son, I struggle to explain the situation to him while teaching him to become a man of LOVE , HOPE, FAITH and PEACE.
When I was approached by Ohale to create this NFT piece tagged ”DEFIi-ance & Hope”, I seized the opportunity to offer my eyes , voice, heart and hands. This work is my search for clarity. It is my search for balance between my love for Nigeria and the reality of how dark things are. It is a picture of the resolve that I see that so many young people have taken to navigate the floating debris and defy the odds that keep stacking up against them. I got my son to write the words you can see in this piece, in the hope that soon, I would be able to explain to him what happened in Lagos Nigeria on his 5th birthday (20.10.20) from a place of JOY and not PAIN.
NFT Art : DEFI-ance & Hope
Project Lead – Bankole Ojo-Medubi
Ohale NFT Partners – Gbane Choko Okolo and Obinna Ajuruchi
Artist – Akinlabi Akinbulumo “Mr Phisha”
https://foundation.app/@ohale/defi-ance-hope-8940
