Hollows : With this art piece depicting a boy putting on a worn-out smile, I intend to bring attention to the difficult realities of orphan/street child trauma and the impact it can have on children. The holes it can dig or has dug in the bottom of their heart, empty spaces symbolizing pain.
Through this piece, I aim to convey the emotional trauma and grief that these children may carry, in the hopes of raising awareness and impelling society to take action to support and protect vulnerable youth.
Stories : I created this particular piece, a drawing with pencil on paper as an ode to the power of imagination that flows in the mind of the young ones, as they are reminded of the magic they can find in the world around them. I can recall that when I was drawing the piece, my head was free of anxiety but my mind had a lot of things to say about how the atmosphere of everything touches my emotions, and translates them into flowers, into a subtle thing. The magic of advancement and the magic of finding innocence in the progress of your passions.
Olude Peter Sunday is a Writer, an Artist and Poet from Ogun State, Nigeria. He has few of his works Published and Forthcoming in Magazines including: Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Rush Magazine, Typehouse lit mag, Paper Lantern, NativeSkin literary magazine, Parousia Christian magazine, Kalahari Review and others. He won the third place prize in the Endsars National Poetry contest held in October 2020. When he isn’t writing, he is painting pure pictures with poesy and photoshop. He tweets @peterolude