| Nkechinyere Ukamaka Asogwa and the Butterfly |
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
"Collaborative Knowledge Creation" A Division of Compcros Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems
"Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"
I was about to rest as the day just rolled into afternoon, convinced that I deserved the rest, having persuaded myself that rather than allow myself to surrender to the drive to write compulsively, I should give myself breaks.
Then I found my way to the Facebook account of Nkechinyere Ukamaka Asogwa and that resolve vanished completely like water evaporating from a rock under the lightning swift rays of the sun.
What happened where I went to?
I saw a sequence of pictures of Nkechinyere Ukamaka Asogwa in a dress that made her glow, more radiant than other pictures of hers.
So?
What is new in a woman in a dress different from one you have not seen her in before?
Why this running around chasing women, writing about female beauty, female spirituality, or the knowledge demonstrated by some women, and even provoking the enmity of some people in the process?
Are you pursuing these women or woman in any romantic or erotic sense?
Why not grab one of them and let it be?
The truth is that I can't help it.
True, one cannot divorce the erotic or amorous impulse from admiration for the opposite sex as a heterosexual man, but how many will one chase?
Does one really have the stamina for sustaining what someone once called a Facebook harem? -with due respect to the ladies.
The fact is that I am excited by beauty, in human beings- both men and women, and women in particular.
I love the beauty of knowledge, the beauty of the human form, the beauty of human creativity.
Now that I have satisfied my conscience that I have a right to be excited by the sight of Nkechinyere in a new dress that I have not seen before, let me start work on the matter.
This essay is titled "Nkechinyere Ukamaka Asogwa and the Butterfly"
What could be the connection between Nkechinyere U. Asogwa and a butterfly?
Not difficult.
The butterfly emerges from its larval stage into its full glory.
Nkechinyere's office pictures depict her in terms of a dialogue with self and space.
They suggest to me a person emerging into a growing self awareness, as dramatised within her work space.
Is it her youth that strikes me in those pics?
The sense of innocent (?) self conscious self exploration in the images?
A 'morning yet on creation day' evocation?
An evocation of innocence in a world where cynicism and evil rule much?
I was searching the pictures for an answer but could not find it.
I was seeing something I could not define.
Then, I now come across her latest office pictures, framing this visual discourse I am struggling with.
Looking through the new pictures, I get the impression that what strikes me is the combination of the woman and the office space.
The office is a place of work where one discover oneself in terms of the public expression of the unfolding implications of earning a living.
The celebration of self in visual images represents self discovery in terms of the aesthetic power of one's visual form.
How may the two converge in making the work space a space of self discovery in relation to the aesthetic force of the self?
by
navigating the work space in a way that makes its contours one's contours
its scents identical with one's scent
its blank spaces alive with one's presence
the office may thus become infused with oneself
as suggested by these pictures of Nkechinyere Ukamaka Asogwa.
what rhythms throb between human being and the spaces she navigates here?
a speechless rhythm?
beating loudly in silence?
vibrating through the form that dances?
mysterious even to its owner?
deep, subtle, mysterious?
beating fast, slow or loud
how does it move you?
a fully alive human being
"Life made me dt way. Little by little I am beginning to feel I am crazy. I dnt know much, but of late I have found myself with words I don't believe I own"
declares the rhythmic Nkechinyere....
"tell me more
i am hooked on this potent drink you are feeding me"
i appeal
"Hahahahahahaha" the witch female declares
"... Pardon me, please. We shall have that talk another day. I do not wish to be a noctural being today, as a demanding meeting beckons at the office later today. We shall all drink from each other's potent drink soon enough. I'm sure you have more for me than I for you" - I am gently taken leave of
"I look forward with great eagerness to dine again at your table, O sharer of potent wine" so speak i to the potent one
So went my first meeting with the rhythmically named nKechInyerE.....
thinker, meditator, introspector,poeticist
'Nothing much there but I leave you to it. Keeping it real and simple'
she states
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