BIRD at the edge of the roof

Tatafo is a Nigerian slang which means “Gossip” it can either be passive or active, but information tends to cross around.

This piece is abstract visual representation and description coupled with notes and words about gossiping and other informative words. “For here 9ja if you go for saloon wen pipo dey barb or make dier hair, na dere you go hear all the tory for this life(both truth and lies) and this matter so never end o, because na watin stil dey happen every day for our society anywhere for the world”. Where two or three pipo sit down, e fit be politically, school fees, house rent, women matter, husband and boyfriend matter and even business matter; There’s a topic they are always gossiping about that either concerns them or doesn’t concern them at all.

Abstract painting sized 114.3cm X 114.3cm mixed media on canvas An art collaboration
Ariama oke X Drexx