Before We Learned to Worry — African Portrait Canvas Wall Art, Original Acrylic Painting by Olamilekan Okunade

Original acrylic on canvas painting by Nigerian artist Olamilekan Okunade — one-of-one African portrait wall art for the living room, bedroom, or office. This piece ships ready to hang, sourced directly from the artist's studio.

Artist: Okunade Olamilekan
Title: Before we learned to worry
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 8 x 12 Inches
Year: 2026
Framing: Unframed

Before we learned to worry.
There were time happiness doesn't feel like performance, nor pure heart feels like doing too much. We ran because the leg can carry us not because we had something to run away from. Laughed and loved without any disappointment.
This portrait reflects on the transition of a carefree livelihood which was quite complicated among adults now, it simply mourns the version of ourselves that lived before fear and anxiety became a daily companion.

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