Alexander Okenyo
You're a window, I'm a knife, 2025
graphite on board
diptych: 25 x 92 cm (overall board size)
BG11105
AU$ 3,000.00
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A knife rests, suspended between use and restraint. Familiar, domestic, and sharp, it carries the quiet knowledge of what it can do. The title draws on Jeff Buckley’s lyric You’re...
A knife rests, suspended between use and restraint. Familiar, domestic, and sharp, it carries the quiet knowledge of what it can do.
The title draws on Jeff Buckley’s lyric You’re a Woman, "I’m a Calf, You’re a Window, I’m a Knife" as a metaphor for imbalance — vulnerability meeting edge, intimacy meeting the fear of harm. The burden of being the cutting thing in a fragile world.
The title draws on Jeff Buckley’s lyric You’re a Woman, "I’m a Calf, You’re a Window, I’m a Knife" as a metaphor for imbalance — vulnerability meeting edge, intimacy meeting the fear of harm. The burden of being the cutting thing in a fragile world.