‘Senior Citizen’: Ironic Depiction of West Africa’s Herder-Farmer Crisis in a Conceptual Ceramics Exposition
This paper proffers an art-speech of the farmer-herder crisis in Nigeria from the standpoint of the conceptual ceramic’s exposition. Using the figurative construct of ‘senior citizen’ and the visual art form of conceptual ceramics, this paper creates a sort of metaphorized analogy that depicts an a...
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This paper proffers an art-speech of the farmer-herder crisis in Nigeria from the standpoint of the conceptual ceramic’s exposition. Using the figurative construct of ‘senior citizen’ and the visual art form of conceptual ceramics, this paper creates a sort of metaphorized analogy that depicts an allegory of Nigeria’s perennial farmer-herder crisis scenario, where the wellbeing of the citizenry appears to have been subordinated to those of the herders and their herds. The uncommon ceramic art approach that negates traditional production methods has been explored in this study to interrogate the outlined concerns. This process includes the pinching of plastic clay, placing it in the palm, rolling the clay with both palms into a stick-like shape, placing the stick at the foot of the fingers, tightly compressing the clay by closing the fists, and finally releasing the clay to reveal the product. This style that has been termed fragmented clay palm press terracotta on canvas proved effective and fluid enough to achieve the essence of this study. The intriguing situation of Nigeria’s socio-political metaphor vis-à-vis the prevailing farmer-herder conundrum is explored in an attempt to foreground the existential irony that this awkward situation portends.
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| spelling | doaj.art-44bf6b50b9d5495aa5b03dd1512d49a52023-11-06T12:26:45ZengResearch and Postgraduate Support DirectorateAfrican Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary Studies2663-45972663-45892023-10-015110.51415/ajims.v5i1.1213‘Senior Citizen’: Ironic Depiction of West Africa’s Herder-Farmer Crisis in a Conceptual Ceramics ExpositionJonathan Okewu0AI Chukwuma Okoli1Durban University of Technology, South AfricaFederal University Lafia, Nigeria This paper proffers an art-speech of the farmer-herder crisis in Nigeria from the standpoint of the conceptual ceramic’s exposition. Using the figurative construct of ‘senior citizen’ and the visual art form of conceptual ceramics, this paper creates a sort of metaphorized analogy that depicts an allegory of Nigeria’s perennial farmer-herder crisis scenario, where the wellbeing of the citizenry appears to have been subordinated to those of the herders and their herds. The uncommon ceramic art approach that negates traditional production methods has been explored in this study to interrogate the outlined concerns. This process includes the pinching of plastic clay, placing it in the palm, rolling the clay with both palms into a stick-like shape, placing the stick at the foot of the fingers, tightly compressing the clay by closing the fists, and finally releasing the clay to reveal the product. This style that has been termed fragmented clay palm press terracotta on canvas proved effective and fluid enough to achieve the essence of this study. The intriguing situation of Nigeria’s socio-political metaphor vis-à-vis the prevailing farmer-herder conundrum is explored in an attempt to foreground the existential irony that this awkward situation portends. https://journals.dut.ac.za/index.php/ajims/article/view/1213art formconceptual ceramicsfarmer-herder crisissenior citizen |
| spellingShingle | Jonathan Okewu AI Chukwuma Okoli ‘Senior Citizen’: Ironic Depiction of West Africa’s Herder-Farmer Crisis in a Conceptual Ceramics Exposition African Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary Studies art form conceptual ceramics farmer-herder crisis senior citizen |
| title | ‘Senior Citizen’: Ironic Depiction of West Africa’s Herder-Farmer Crisis in a Conceptual Ceramics Exposition |
| title_full | ‘Senior Citizen’: Ironic Depiction of West Africa’s Herder-Farmer Crisis in a Conceptual Ceramics Exposition |
| title_fullStr | ‘Senior Citizen’: Ironic Depiction of West Africa’s Herder-Farmer Crisis in a Conceptual Ceramics Exposition |
| title_full_unstemmed | ‘Senior Citizen’: Ironic Depiction of West Africa’s Herder-Farmer Crisis in a Conceptual Ceramics Exposition |
| title_short | ‘Senior Citizen’: Ironic Depiction of West Africa’s Herder-Farmer Crisis in a Conceptual Ceramics Exposition |
| title_sort | senior citizen ironic depiction of west africa s herder farmer crisis in a conceptual ceramics exposition |
| topic | art form conceptual ceramics farmer-herder crisis senior citizen |
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