DENT DE LION by Ayo Eniola
Artist Bio
Ayo Eniola
(they/them)
Ayo is a Black agender college student/farmer who is not afraid of carving their own path. They fell in love with visual art just 2 years ago and are especially drawn to representing interspecies connections through their pieces. Their submission ‘dent de lion’ is a portrait of a dandelion in its different developmental stages, above and below ground. Dandelions are often a farmer’s foe as they are incredibly difficult to keep out of the fields. Dandelions thrive in disturbed soil, sites of ecological disaster. The common dandelion spread across America alongside settler colonization, land theft, and the displacement of Indigenous peoples. Even plants are implicated in violent human histories, though their involvement is often buried underground.
