olokun.
"When Oludumare, All Powerful God, went through this earth, there was only fire and burning rocks ... Oludumare decided then that the Earth would exist, with its mountains, its valleys, its savannas. The hot vapors from the flames that accumulated in space, Oludumare converted them into clouds. In the parts of the rocks where the fire had been most violent, there remained, after it had gone out, some deep and enormous holes. In the deepest was born Olokun, the Ocean."
– Yoruba Proverb, Lydia Cabrera, Yemayá y Oschún
“olokun” deepened my love of wetlands, and made me fall in love with aerial photography. Captured via drone over Banks’ Channel in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, the perfectly circular naturally occurring tidal pool in the marshland reminded me of a Titan- dragonlike personification of the ocean itself best encapsulated in the idea of “olokun”, the sacred Orisha of the ocean in Yoruba cosmology & culture.
tLimited Edition Print (200 Available)
Medium - 11 x 14 (100)
Large - 16 x 20 (75)
X-Large - 24 x 36 (25)
Signed Certificate of Authenticity Included
Prints are NOT framed, I recommend finding a local business to frame your prints professionally.
"When Oludumare, All Powerful God, went through this earth, there was only fire and burning rocks ... Oludumare decided then that the Earth would exist, with its mountains, its valleys, its savannas. The hot vapors from the flames that accumulated in space, Oludumare converted them into clouds. In the parts of the rocks where the fire had been most violent, there remained, after it had gone out, some deep and enormous holes. In the deepest was born Olokun, the Ocean."
– Yoruba Proverb, Lydia Cabrera, Yemayá y Oschún
“olokun” deepened my love of wetlands, and made me fall in love with aerial photography. Captured via drone over Banks’ Channel in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, the perfectly circular naturally occurring tidal pool in the marshland reminded me of a Titan- dragonlike personification of the ocean itself best encapsulated in the idea of “olokun”, the sacred Orisha of the ocean in Yoruba cosmology & culture.
tLimited Edition Print (200 Available)
Medium - 11 x 14 (100)
Large - 16 x 20 (75)
X-Large - 24 x 36 (25)
Signed Certificate of Authenticity Included
Prints are NOT framed, I recommend finding a local business to frame your prints professionally.
"When Oludumare, All Powerful God, went through this earth, there was only fire and burning rocks ... Oludumare decided then that the Earth would exist, with its mountains, its valleys, its savannas. The hot vapors from the flames that accumulated in space, Oludumare converted them into clouds. In the parts of the rocks where the fire had been most violent, there remained, after it had gone out, some deep and enormous holes. In the deepest was born Olokun, the Ocean."
– Yoruba Proverb, Lydia Cabrera, Yemayá y Oschún
“olokun” deepened my love of wetlands, and made me fall in love with aerial photography. Captured via drone over Banks’ Channel in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, the perfectly circular naturally occurring tidal pool in the marshland reminded me of a Titan- dragonlike personification of the ocean itself best encapsulated in the idea of “olokun”, the sacred Orisha of the ocean in Yoruba cosmology & culture.
tLimited Edition Print (200 Available)
Medium - 11 x 14 (100)
Large - 16 x 20 (75)
X-Large - 24 x 36 (25)
Signed Certificate of Authenticity Included
Prints are NOT framed, I recommend finding a local business to frame your prints professionally.