This striking composition reimagines a pivotal moment pulled from Chinua Achebe’s acclaimed novel Things Fall Apart, capturing the weight of grief and repression through Okonkwo’s stoic yet troubled presence. Swathed in a sea of red, the figures of Ekwefi and Ezinma express sorrow in contrast to his hardened silence—his body a pillar of loss as he holds Ikemefuna, the son he allowed to be sacrificed. The swirling, raging sky behind them echoes the turmoil he refuses to externalise, making this a powerful meditation on masculinity, grief, and the personal cost of rigidity.
