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11 Toyin Odutola Quotes & Sayings
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11 Toyin Odutola Quotes & Sayings
Nigerian
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Born: 1985 |
Artist
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I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.
Toyin Odutola
Image
Portrait
Kept
Push
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I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.
Toyin Odutola
Anime
Before
Comics
Even
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The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.
Toyin Odutola
Comics
Detailed
Graphic
Influenced
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For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.
Toyin Odutola
About
Artist
Automatically
Because
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I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.
Toyin Odutola
Around
Burnt
Child
Disappeared
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Toyin Odutola
Could
Create
Me
Needed
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My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.
Toyin Odutola
African
America
Based
Because
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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.
Toyin Odutola
Anywhere
Black
Context
History
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I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.
Toyin Odutola
About
Before
Drawing
Fit
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Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.
Toyin Odutola
About
Artist
Being
Black
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It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.
Toyin Odutola
Basically
Breaking
Breaking Up
Come
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Toyin Odutola Quotes & Sayings