African figurative sculpture, carved from a single branch and retaining the bark to the lower section, the top showing a stylised two-faced woman.
Perhaps a visual metaphor of the duality that we all possess? As Henry Jekyll asserts “man is not truly one, but truly two.” In trying to separate good and evil, Sama only succeeds in alienating the dark side.
“It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.”
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
African, mid 20th Century