The banana leaf is familiar to the point of invisibility in Nigeria, and this piece asks you to look again.

Three to four large leaves are arranged asymmetrically across the frame. One dominant form cuts diagonally through the upper composition while the others emerge from the edges and lower field. The background is very deep forest green, close to black. There is no garden here, no jungle setting. The context has been stripped away entirely, so the leaves themselves carry the full weight of the image.

Warm amber light falls across the front surfaces. The undersides recede into cool shadow, and the shift between the two gives each leaf unexpected depth. Veining and surface texture are rendered in a painterly, almost lithographic quality, sitting somewhere between the photographic and the abstract.

The piece changes with the light in a room. By day it reads as a study in form. By candlelight, it becomes something quieter.