Biography
As an ethnically Yoruba person, I grew up in Lagos, Nigeria for most of my life, relocating to the northeastern region of the United States at 17 to pursue my college education. In my undergraduate years at the University of Rhode Island, I double majored in the divergent fields of Fine Arts and Medical Laboratory Sciences, and later completed their respective Bachelor degrees of Arts and Science. During this time however, I grew more fascinated with interdisciplinary connections between human psychology and art, and began exploring my artistic work as a way to process emotion and spirituality alongside various complex narratives present within the human mind.
Overtime, my work evolved in clarity, revealing a fascination with the distinctive capacity of painting and poetry to address human development and psychological wounded-ness, which I explore in connection to my faith and cultural identity.
Through the rendering of the human figure, I engage personal and vicarious stories of wounded-ness and transformation, conveying marked experiences able to shape one's psychological identity. I consider the human mind a field of exploration, imbued with clues to identity; 'what shapes us', and brokenness; ‘what has wounded and perhaps continues to wound us’, shaping and reinforcing the identities we currently project.
I am moved by these explorations because they hold value to healing, both in the individualistic and communal sense. For this reason, I consider my work interdisciplinary, as I find that I wade through the waters of the creative world, the psychological world and the spiritual world. For me, the spiritual world is interpreted rather intuitively through my own palpable experience of the God of the Bible described in Christian Spirituality. Naturally, my interests in specific topics related to psychological experience and wounded-ness, are tied to my own history; both cultural; a Yoruba Nigerian in diaspora, and developmental; my current lifespan of Infancy to early adulthood, which dialogues my own experiences of psychological wounded-ness: trauma, grief and loss and a pursuit of mental resilience and holistic healing
Kofoworola Adebiyi
Founder of artofpath
My journey of encountering Jesus, and the newness of the path that unfolded before me, began when I decided to turn from the darkness my life had called home, and following Him was the genesis of artofpath.
As such, artofpath was created to show forth the winding and unilinear journey of a soul walking with Jesus. The journey and the road taken, comprised of many bus stops, seasons and experiences. The Bible tells us that nothing is new under the Sun and that we, as believers of Christ Jesus, face trials and experiences of many kinds. Still, we should take comfort in knowing that He has overcome already for us and that our brothers and sisters around the world face and experience the same. In other words, no one person is alone, though it may feel that way at times; the truth is we are all in this together and, most importantly, with Jesus, Who is walking with us every step of this path of life.