Originals, objects, and lessons from Lagos·@art_by_leso

ORÉNI by Tosin

Journal·Culture

Finding Beauty in Everyday Experiences

Beauty is rarely ceremonial. It is a bowl left out, a chair in afternoon light, someone turning away.

Finding Beauty in Everyday Experiences

Beauty, for me, is rarely ceremonial. It is in the ordinary hour — a chair in afternoon light, a bowl left on a table, cloth folded and not yet put away.

I am a multidisciplinary artist from Nigeria, and the work is bound to everyday experience as much as to culture. The richness is already in the room. The task is to look long enough to notice it.

This is not nostalgia. It is attention. A home does not need to perform being African. It needs to be lived in, with objects that can bear being used.

That is the thinking behind Home & Lifestyle, and behind the stories in Saturday Stories.