MAKING MY REALITY
In Making My Reality, Lawal Said conjures a visceral portrait of transformation—one that pulses with rhythm, resistance, and reclamation. The figure, rendered in sweeping strokes and enveloped in a storm of color, is not merely painted but summoned. Their long, flowing hair and fur-lined garment evoke both ancestral memory and contemporary defiance, suggesting a body in motion and a spirit in command.
The composition is a symphony of contrasts: abstraction and figuration, stillness and velocity, warmth and coolness. Vivid reds and oranges clash and harmonize with deep purples and electric blues, creating a chromatic turbulence that mirrors the emotional intensity of self-making. The background, alive with energetic lines and patterns, feels less like a setting and more like a force—an external chaos the figure is both shaped by and pushing against.
I am the one who knows my pain, my struggles and my victory, what I chose to do with what I have been given makes my reality.
The composition is a symphony of contrasts: abstraction and figuration, stillness and velocity, warmth and coolness. Vivid reds and oranges clash and harmonize with deep purples and electric blues, creating a chromatic turbulence that mirrors the emotional intensity of self-making. The background, alive with energetic lines and patterns, feels less like a setting and more like a force—an external chaos the figure is both shaped by and pushing against.
I am the one who knows my pain, my struggles and my victory, what I chose to do with what I have been given makes my reality.