The Meaning of Being An Artist

• This month — and this time of year — represent philanthropy for me.
• I find myself drawn to artists, because so many of them are struggling.
• We often equate the phrase “struggling artist” with finances or fame, but sometimes the
struggle runs much deeper.
• For Tokunbo Agosu — known as TOKS — the struggle has been shaped by tragedy and
loss.
• His roots run deep in the vibrant culture of Nigeria, before he continued his journey to
Canada.
• His mission and vision are “to create a place of purpose, recovery, and grace.”

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• When you grow close to artists and dive deeply into conversation with them, you
discover how much of their life experience — especially the challenges — are expressed
through their art.
• Toks is one of those artists who defies the traditional “struggling artist” image.
• He battled years of depression after losing his father to cancer.
• Darkness deepened when he later lost his baby girl.
• Toks held tightly to his faith, believing that a better life could rise from the grief of losing
both his child and his father.
• His passion for art transformed that struggle into purpose.
• He began creating wall art and cushions as part of his healing.

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• This life-changing intervention — choosing creativity as a path through sorrow — is a
step not many people would be brave enough to take.
• Through his beautiful and functional art pieces, he found a way to rise above the darkness
and begin again, slowly and intentionally.
• You can feel that journey reflected in the simplicity yet vibrant energy of artistic endeavors 

Toks is also taking part in his own philanthropy.

He is donating a portionf rom the  proceeds of his art sales to support  BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH 

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QUOTING FROM TOKUNBO AGOSA

"From Loss to Light
From those ashes, Woven Wonders was born.


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The artwork arrived gradually through reflection, through tears, through healing.
The deep grays and blacks in my designs hold the memory of that season.
But look closely, and you’ll see bright bursts of color running through them.
They are not merely artistic choices, they are declarations:
Hope lives here.
Healing lives here.
Joy returns slowly, but surely.
These colors are my testimony  that beauty can rise from brokenness, and that even in the deepest sorrow, light still insists on emerging."

 

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