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Alexander Okenyo
You're a window, I'm a knife, 2025graphite on boarddiptych: 25 x 92 cm (overall board size)BG11105AU$ 3,000.00Further images
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.
