USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: KEMI AJIBOYE : AESTHETIC, METAPHYSICAL AND MORAL UNIVERSES

                                                                                                                     Kemi Ajiboye 

                                                                                                     Aesthetic, Metaphysical and Moral Universes

                                                                                                                 Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

                                                                                                                             The Cosmos of World Art and Correlative Cultural Forms

                                                                                                        "Collaborative Knowledge Creation"

                                                                                                               A  Division of Compcros

                                                                                        Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems 

                                                                                 "Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"

What insights could the thought of the multi-cultural thinker and artistic creator Kemi Ajiboye bring to bear on aesthetics, the study of beauty and of art, on metaphysics, the exploration of being and on morality or ethics, enquiry into right conduct?

How may the thought of Kemi Ajiboye be characterised? 

Could we use her aesthetic thought as our primary exploratory and synergistic platform for her thinking?

Aesthetics of transience in which transience is recognised as permanent value, as inspired by classical Japanese aesthetics?

Scientific cosmological aesthetics in projecting the beauty perceived through scientific cosmology?

Yoruba verbal aesthetics?

Her aesthetic explorations range from natural terrestrial forms to astronomical structures to architectural forms, to body art and examples of couture, among others.

Does any line run through these imagistic and verbal expressions? 

May a unifying dynamic be discerned?

What I find particularly compelling are her visual and verbal presentations of Japanese landscape art in dialogue with classical Japanese architecture and her depictions and commentary on the beauty of physical celestial forms.

How may these universes of possibility be further correlated beyond being understood as expressing aspects of the thought of Kemi Ajiboye? 

The emergence of beauty through transformations within time, may this be described as as a summative aesthetic principle emerging from her thought?

Beauty undergoing transformation through the dynamics of experience as it emerges into new constellations of possibility through the tensions of opposites?

The value of creative emptiness as soil for regeneration?

The Chinese I Ching and the Yoruba/Orisa Ifa on the dynamic complementarity of opposites in the shaping of reality, would these be helpful in encapsulating and expanding insights in this context?

The Nigerian aesthetic thinker and architect Demas Nwoko on the beauty that emerges with various periods of human physical development, culminating in the beauty of old age?

The snake, in its sinuous dynamism, evoking the transformative power of cosmic motion?

Do these aesthetic values demonstrate any moral or and metaphysical correlates in her thought?

Reading her writings do we observe values that go with these aesthetic conceptions? 

Compassionate detachment, forgiveness, the divine as immanent in human beings and nature, manifesting in the self as fundamental purpose, the struggle for the rights of women to actualise themselves as full human beings, these being values her writings celebrate, may they be correlated with her aesthetic thought and art?

In her own words : 

"The justification of our lust and thrust for the infinite, away from our sensory paradise, comparable to the search for the deepest recesses of our minds, are both ways of seeking the answers to creation, purpose,demise etc."

"Women in all shapes and variations are one of the best forms of beauty the Universe has been blessed with..."

"What is God? …He is the breath inside the breath.

If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere.
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Without loving another, without knowing what it means to be completely in communion with one another, you cannot be in communion with truth.
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The most divine mission of every human being is to explore himself. We all contain a seed, which is the source of unlimited possibilities and our link to GOD” (God-within)."

Let us reflect on various possibilities of visioning her thought, as we contemplate images she has used in expressing this thought,from top  to bottom , evoking Japanese Wabi-Sabi aesthetics of the beauty of transience in terms of landscape creation and architecture, of dark matter and negative space through an image of the moon hanging in black space and of the Japanese concept of MA understood as creative emptiness, in relation to visualisations of landscape, the human form and the beauty of clothing.

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