Jacked Kinesics

“Jacked Kinesics” portrays an emotional gestural message (gestures in emotions), with the subject of the male figure. The studies deal chiefly with form and muscles, interacting them anatomically with colours and lines as the basic principles of drawing.

Onofua’s sensibility in his anatomical paintings references gestural documentation of the human state of mind. He perceives a link between human moods and their facial expressions, body gestures, bodily expressions or posture. The represented muscular male figures are a gestural positioning that communicates their emotional information or belief system.

Most of the subject figures feature jacked and hefty masculine appearances but with different emotional information well depicted through their gestural dispositions. The idea behind this aesthetic visualization is to inform society that a book is not judged by its cover; content is not determined by shape or size but by the volume it carries. The jacked ones are also sometimes not the stronger ones; rich men also may not be rich in all things. The beauty of life is not subjected to physical appearances but to how we can societally, with meekness, appeal to our inner insufficiency.