Oju Inu
Penetration of Being in Classical Yoruba Epistemology
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems
"Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"
It is constituted by a relationship between an unseen interior and a dazzling surface
The surface is visually compelling
in its inscription with a variety of figural and abstract forms
as the interior remains hidden.
The figural forms suggest the specific character of existent entities,
represented here by their material appearance.
The abstract forms depict methods of developing, organizing and depicting knowledge.
The unseen interior suggests the compelling force of the drive
to see beyond the obvious character of reality to its hidden depths.
The golden radiance of its surface
dramatizes the beauty and delight, the priceless character and
timeless power represented by existence and the understanding of its nature.
The relationship between the unseen interior and complexly beautiful surface
evokes the relationship between exteriority and interiority of being
in constituting the totality of existence
and the aspiration to encompass this totality
in terms of the integrative perception suggested by the sphericality of the calabash
and the motif of intersecting, holistically configured bands and triangles
prominent on its surface
Oju inu
The inner eye
Oju inu
The inward eye
Oju inu
Inward perception
Oju inu
Penetrative visuality
Oju inu
Penetrative perception
Oju inu
Perceptual penetration
Oju inu
Perception beyond the corporeal
Oju inu
Perceptual penetralia
Oju inu
Perception beyond the surface
Oju inu
Seeing beyond the surface
Oju inu
The interiority that sees beyond what the eyes can see
Oju inu
The perceptual movement beyond the platform of the basic
Ojuinu
Perceptual continuum
Oju inu
Perceptual continuum beyond corporeality
Oju inu
Perceptual penetration of being
Oju inu
The eye looking inward to the self and inward into the depths of that which is outward, beyond the self
Oju inu
The eye of being
Inspirational Text
Babatunde Lawal, "Representing the Self and its Metaphysical Other in Yoruba Art", The Art Bulletin, Vol.83, No. 3 (Sept., 2001), pp. 498-526. 516-517.
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