Ori is an ongoing series that explores the head as both physical form and conceptual site. Drawing upon the significance of ori within Yoruba thought while remaining rooted in contemporary painting, the works investigate perception, consciousness, and the formation of identity. The figures resist portraiture in its conventional sense. They are not depictions of particular individuals so much as embodiments of interior presence.

Through compressed layers of oil stick, scraping, and revision, each painting records its own emergence. The surfaces retain the evidence of hesitation and correction, allowing the material process to parallel the instability of perception itself. Influenced by both Yoruba sculptural traditions and the existential language of Alberto Giacometti, the series treats the head not merely as anatomy but as the point where seeing, memory, and being converge.

Rather than resolving identity into narrative, Ori asks viewers to remain within uncertainty. The paintings occupy the space where recognition begins but never fully arrives, suggesting that consciousness is always more expansive than what can be clearly seen.