Doba Afolabi :: Urban Symphonies HANDBAG The rim is torn rather

The rim is torn rather than trued

it does not simply illuminate

This is the beauty of a vintage piece

subtly obscuring what's inside while keeping a feeling of openness

and the weight of something real

Doba Afolabi :: Urban Symphonies HANDBAG The rim is torn ratherA gold sky over a city built entirely from stacked blocks of colour coral, maroon, teal, cobalt, ochre towers crowding one another all the way to the horizon. Laid across the lower half, drawn in the same flat knife strokes as the buildings, a trumpet stretches out from the left and an upright bass stands at the right. The instruments are made of the city and the city is made of the music. At nine feet across this is the largest work in the