Dissolute Landscape

Dissolute Landscape is a poignant visual meditation on emotional erosion and spiritual fragmentation. In this 16 x 20 inch oil painting, John C. Ndupu channels his signature Aggressive Ulism style — a dynamic synthesis of Nsibidi and Uli symbolic traditions — to construct a terrain that feels both abstract and ancestral. Vivid layers of oil unfurl like tectonic memories, where jagged lines and gestural brushstrokes tear through swaths of color, echoing the slow dissolution of structure and certainty.

This work pulses with a sense of inner upheaval. Rhythmic shapes clash and converge in a chaotic harmony, reflecting the artist’s ongoing dialogue with personal and cultural disintegration. As with much of John’s oeuvre, lyricism meets urgency, and abstraction gives way to raw emotional terrain. The landscape is not geographic — it is psychic, spiritual, and deeply human.