What about Us ?
'It's a pity that life can only be lived looking forward, but understood looking back.' Fifteen years ago, Pat Nebo, a veteran set designer in the entertainment industry, made a few comments i n an interview about practicing his craft in Nigeria. Two lines stood out in his career-long reflections ... "...what I found out is our educational system is not tailored to basic perception of art. We have not actually matured to look inwards at the glamour in our culture." Here's the full newspaper archived page from March 27th, 2009. In the first phrase, Nebo accurately identified the common denominator for such a mediocre approach to life. We have gone back and forth about this mediocrity cutting across all things in our living space, not just art. C ars as spicy as a platter of table salt, hermetically sealed buildings pasted as concept architecture without context, civil engineering works with a distinct lack of planning, functio...