A heart, looped and compressed, occupies the left of the page while a single stark vertical climbs off the top-right edge entirely unrelated to it - two separate emergencies sharing one sheet of paper. Something in that treatment of the wound-like scored mark recalls Tapies more than any anatomical heart; Okafor's crimson on white insists that the body is evidence first, symbol second.
A heart, looped and compressed, occupies the left of the page while a single stark vertical climbs off the top-right edge entirely unrelated to it - two separate emergencies sharing one sheet of paper. Something in that treatment of the wound-like scored mark recalls Tapies more than any anatomical heart; Okafor's crimson on white insists that the body is evidence first, symbol second.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery