Language as a Boundary, Cleveland, Ohio, 2016

This mural in Cleveland, Ohio, draws symbolic inspiration from the written work Language as a Boundary by Wole Soyinka, where the Nigerian writer looks at language as a lived phenomenon, with its dualistic function of providing necessary cultural self affirmation on an individualistic and cultural level, yet simultaneously acting as one of the key factors in embedding the separatist definition in social consciousness, further solidifying colonial boundaries and obstructing the humanist search for a common understanding.