The fluidity of life in the art piece ‘Let it go’: Capturing the essence through movement and texture

Abstract

The study addressed the importance of movement and texture in postcolonial art and examined the connections between literary elements and personal experiences, as well as cultural belonging through reconsidering both the canonical and the avant-garde practices of the twentieth century art. It aimed at showing how there is a reflection of the dynamism in the aspect of life by these factors within a Ghanaian existence narrative of arts. The conceptual work “Let it go” is primarily based on the concepts of liberty and mobility, and the meaning of grains in the wood and metal as the tendency of the life while the changes happen around. Thus, the work reproduces this slight fluidity in the creation of contexts within which the materiality of a thing can be felt to have its own freedom. Silver has a crucial function in this creation first though surface reticulation that involved making use of heat to master an emotive metallic sheen. Some of the movement explorations are conducted through anticlastic and synclastic forming wherein the curves go in two different and the same directions respectively. This aspect reveals even more the yin-yang duality which is the nature of life itself- the dynamics of our existence in work and play.