FLORIAN OKWU
Fine Artist & Sculptor
Vancouver, BC
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Florian Okwu is a sculptor from Los Angeles, CA, working primarily with wood to create modern idols inspired from his own imagination and internal mythos. He explores the human condition, calling to ancient relics and imagined deities as a testament to the enduring necessity to question and cultivate a relationship with mortality, belief structure, and change.
He finds conceptual inspiration from his fascinations with anthropology, ancient architecture, the natural world, as well as biological and symbolic symmetry, fragility, and representations of idolatry in past civilizations. From these, he builds a personal aesthetic language through which he materializes his imagination, loosing the beings, structures and creatures of the mind onto the physical world. Florian enjoys the process of creation above all, and uses the intuitive nature of carving as a means to deepen his respect for, and attune his humanity.
These sculptures function as a kind of life journal: They chapter the milestones of his life and learnings, acting as proofs of his attempts to explore and strengthen his relationship with instinct: This innate drive to nurture new cultures and languages, ornamentalize our lives, prove our existences, worship our myths, and imprint our identities onto the materials of a chaotic world.
Florian’s work aims to invite these primal urges to the surface: Allowing the subconscious dwellers who rule our passions, obsessions and fears to co-exist with a modern world that divorces form from soul.
He finds conceptual inspiration from his fascinations with anthropology, ancient architecture, the natural world, as well as biological and symbolic symmetry, fragility, and representations of idolatry in past civilizations. From these, he builds a personal aesthetic language through which he materializes his imagination, loosing the beings, structures and creatures of the mind onto the physical world. Florian enjoys the process of creation above all, and uses the intuitive nature of carving as a means to deepen his respect for, and attune his humanity.
These sculptures function as a kind of life journal: They chapter the milestones of his life and learnings, acting as proofs of his attempts to explore and strengthen his relationship with instinct: This innate drive to nurture new cultures and languages, ornamentalize our lives, prove our existences, worship our myths, and imprint our identities onto the materials of a chaotic world.
Florian’s work aims to invite these primal urges to the surface: Allowing the subconscious dwellers who rule our passions, obsessions and fears to co-exist with a modern world that divorces form from soul.
02/25/2026