Artist field note

Toyin Ojih Odutola

Drawing as world-building.

Appears inThe Discoveries
Compound Leaf by Toyin Ojih Odutola — Example from the series
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Compound Leaf

2017

Landscape and figure are drawn with equal narrative weight.

The five in one idea

Odutola uses drawing to prove that representation can invent history, not merely record it.