Ugonna Hosten
Source, 2025
Charcoal on paper
38 x 30 cm
15 x 11 3/4 in
15 x 11 3/4 in
UHO 002
Source is specifically speaking about water, the water appears. It's a reoccurring motif. You have the heroin laying in water to be cleansed, there's this hand washing. There's, you know,...
Source is specifically speaking about water, the water appears. It's a reoccurring motif. You have the heroin laying in water to be cleansed, there's this hand washing. There's, you know, kind of events happening in front of the water, and The Source is the consuming of this eternal water. It's like wanting to know the beginning of time, wanting to be connected internally to this water. Again, its peaks to the element, element of water, but in a different way. You know, the body was submerged in water as a way of cleansing, the dross, should I say, of, you know what? Initially, sometimes when I think about, the word cleansing, I kind of think of, you know, because I grew up Christian, I think of sin immediately, but it's not. It's not sin that I'm talking about. It's cleansing of a particular way of seeing things. It's cleansing to open up new vistas. It's about renewal, It's about opening up new faculties, expanding capacities to perceive in other ways. So, Source is acknowledging that water comes from one specific point, and we're talking about the eternal waters. By drinking this water it's kind of an elixir as well and consuming this elixir to expand faculties.