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AKIRASH (OLANIYI R. AKINDIYA)

Lives and works in Pflugerville, Texas United Sates
https://www.artwithakirash.com/

Olaniyi’s work focuses on moments of time, fleeting moments
that can be easily forgotten or transformed. Reflecting on rural
versus urban life, the accelerated pace of development, and social
infrastructure, his work explores the personal and the universal,
investigating the invisible systems of power that govern everyday
existence. He utilizes a multitude of techniques and materials,
including re-purposed objects, which may result in mixed media
painting, sculpture, installation, video, photography, sound, or
performance. Ultimately, his work is designed to create comfort,
peace, and solace. He believe that art can be a balm to the soul,
revealing a quiet inner truth. His art is a reflection of the joys of life,
directly inspired by rhythm, harmony, and the movement of daily
existence. While inscribing all these mediums in my comprehensive
compositions, my works achieve an accumulative density that
overwhelms with spectacle, grandeur and wonderment.

I believe art is an instrument to question and search for solutions -
to dig out the truth without violence. Being surrounded by diversity
of discipline and experience gives my work a grander scope and
allows for more unexpected breakthroughs when searching for
answers to what ails our society. Ultimately, my work is designed to
create comfort, peace, and solace. I believe that art can be a balm
to the soul, revealing a quiet inner truth. My art is a reflection.

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