Water Is Life With Arnold Fakom

Cameroonian artist, Arnold Fakom, celebrates life with his portrayal of water and it’s relationship with the human body. Arnold’s art is imbued, almost top to bottom, with water. In the blue colour that’s representative of his every stroke, and the underwater fauna that’s forefront of most of his works - his fascination with water comes through. What’s more, Arnold has been vocal about how concepts of water have affected his daily life - not just in the fact that we as humans need it to live, but also in the challenges that comes with water scarcity in his native Cameroon.

Several of his works merge colorful underwater coral ecosystems with the human body - celebrating that fact that water is life and all humans are essentially one with it and (should be) in harmony with the aquatic ecosystem.

See some of his works below.

Learn more about Arnold’s work on his Instagram.