UNSPOKEN PASSAGES

Holding on to time – the physical, past, hidden, or written, cannot be overlooked. I enlisted the participation of my family, my father in particular. He has told stories of the country he lived in while growing up, The Nigerian civil war, the riots, the Independence and others, but this part of him I felt strong about, telling time with objects he has gotten over time. In Osogbo, Osun state in Nigeria, in Susan Wenger’s home, similar images emerged of time, written, unspoken, and then spoken. What is written behind the mask, the writing on the wall, the object that lies still, we can only tell as time goes by.








 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 





 

In this series, I try to immerse myself in time, in history, in facts and myths. What is there to believe or not believe? I saw myself passing through and telling these times, and relating with it. I believe juxtaposing these images from different spaces into one space shows the commonness, the simple nature of adapting, of becoming, of telling the sacred nature of time.
Chidinma Chinke (c) 2015