Layomi Akinrinade:
Anatomy of a Black Hole

Anatomy of a Black Hole

These paintings come from the void—
a space where pressure pressed in,
and making became survival.

Sometimes forms revealed themselves;
sometimes I wrestled them from nothing.

They orbit loneliness and mania,
shadows of futures,
paranoia seeded in unseen economies—
but never collapse into one story.

Fragments, companions,
gestures of persistence,
where fracture and becoming coexist.

In their pull, I also trace the gravity of diaspora—
memory stretched across continents,
futures bent by displacement,
yet refusing to vanish into silence.