In her newest work Nola Ayoola (@nolaayoola_ ) has shaped wood into symbols resembling hair picks. Infuluenced by traditional craftsmanship, reimagined with contemporary patterns, motifs, and lines that illude to ilarun symbols of strenght and ancestry, these large scale wall works examine hair and weaving as a process, a social construct, a community, story, a history.⁠ ⁠ Through the making of these works the artist asks: How do we connect to objects? How do they represent us? Can we reimagine portraiture as objects? ⁠ ⁠ Nola Ayoola ‘Ilarun(s)’ (Yoruba) ⁠ Wood Sculptures 2022