“Beyond the Lotion Bench” by Odera Igbokwe.
Oil and acrylic on canvas. 2023.
Available to view until March 18 at the Burrard Arts Foundation 🌻
For this painting I wanted to transform the stress, pace, and anxiety of certain beauty and hygiene rituals into something slow and pleasurable. Instead of tripping over clothes, furiously applying Shea butters, and worrying about time I wanted the figure to just fully breathe into the ease of their inner garden 🌬️🧴
Hey everyone, this isn’t FR-related but since so many of us on FR are some flavor of LGBTQ... I’ve revamped my pride clothing shop because I’m broke rn and think this business has potential.
To celebrate, I’m running a $100 gift card giveaway!
If you like what you see, I’d really appreciate your support in signal boosting this. Help a QPOC-owned business get off the ground and get yourself something cute!
Virtue Signals for the Ghana Must Go Gworl by Odera Igbokwe.
Oil and acrylic on canvas. 2023.
Available to view until March 18 at the @burrardarts gallery 🌻
Making this painting was such an exciting opportunity! I wanted to pour more of my personality and playfulness into bigger surfaces, and to still allow the magic and reverence I have for the spiritual to come through. Sometimes the magic is ancestral, and sometimes the magic is going out to buy ingredients for a stirfry and keeping your cool as you’re interrupted by a “PURRRR. SLAAAAYY mzzsx maMaaaA!”💐🧡🫣🥴
Here at ValiDate HQ, we’ve been getting a lot of messages about “how its gay to kiss a man,” and “Ashlie is way too hot to be straight,” and “how long can another customer makeout with the manager of a fast food restaurant before you’re allowed to call OSHA?”
So we sat our straight characters down and made them answer your questions, so we don’t have to. Enjoy!
Arihi voiced by Jensen Trani
Ashlie voiced by Aife (@Aife_VA)
Malik voiced by Edward Selvey IV
Narrator voiced by Deezumaki (@THEEDeezumaki )
Casting director- Joshua David King (@joshuadavdking )