Title: “Redemption Arch” 2023
Medium: Digital Art
Dimensions: 36 x 48 inches
Artists: Femi Kayede and Anthony B. Adeaba
Description:
“Redemption Arch” is a soaring homage to the confluence of sound and struggle, spirituality and sovereignty. Here, the immortal voice of Bob Marley reverberates through the monumental Redemption Arch in Accra, Ghana—a place already saturated with national memory and now infused with global resonance.
Marley’s likeness floats through the arch as if summoned by ancestral prayers. He is neither fully rendered nor abstracted—he is vibration. His dreadlocks sway like kente cloth in the wind, and his eyes gaze toward a dawn not yet realized. In the background, sonic waves emanate from the arch itself, transforming the political architecture into a cosmic amplifier for Marley’s lyrics of justice and freedom.
The palette—sunset golds, revolutionary reds, and Rastafarian greens—bleeds into the digital sky, evoking the palette of resistance movements and liberation dreams. This piece is both an invitation and an invocation: come to the arch not just to remember, but to reimagine. For those who understand Marley not merely as a singer but as a prophet, “Redemption Arch” offers a new cathedral of echoes.
