Thursday 18 February 2016

INTERPRETATION OF EUPHORIA OF SOPHISTRY ARTWORK

Cover page of the much awaited Terseer Sam Baki's Euphoria which came second runner up in the 2015 Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Poetry Prize.


INTERPRETATION OF EUPHORIA OF SOPHISTRY 

 
  By Debbie Iorliam




It is an abstract painting that depicts the celebration of humanity in its various facets of nature, creation and deception. There are different motifs and they connote different things. These motifs include animals, trees, food, beauty, direction( represented in feet), hypnosis circle, play and so on.

These are all aspects of our humanity and existence which people bring different philosophies to shape, for whatever agenda they hope to achieve. These agendas might be religious, political or social. The proponent in each  speak in convincing ways to try and win the hearts of everyone to follow their thought pattern and path even when they are wrong.

The man in the portrait represents us and the efforts we make to control the forces around us which sometimes pushes us to the various motifs we embrace as especially encapsulated in the philosophy of the sophist who propounded them. 


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