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I aim to challenge traditional ideas of beauty and societal expectations, offering a contemporary view of African femininity

— Deborah Segun

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I generally hope that people are able to see parts of themselves in my work

I want to continue the legacy of African art by infusing my work with emotional depth and narratives that reflect both personal and collective experiences.

I am allowing myself to trust the process and hope that things will align

Contemporary African art is making its mark on the global scene by reshaping how we think about identity, culture, and the human experience

She slowly separates from her past self but knows that little bits of her will always be present, but there is an understanding that I will be kinder to her when she visits

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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