Recent canvas paintings and wall paintings bridge many distinctive visual parts into a multi-faceted whole, while exploring color in all its multitudinal permutations. Within the context of installation, Odita continues his primary investigation of color through what the artist calls a `third space.’ The painting that gives the exhibition its title, “Fusion” makes its case evident. This painting, like a stitched or quilted textile, is a weaving of two different spaces, of two different times and temperaments brought together along a single vertical line made by the abutment of these two patterned fields. This invisible vertical line becomes the fissure that separates as it conjoins – a flash point where two vibrant color fields become one.

For Odita, color in itself has the possibility of mirroring the complexity of the world as much as it has the potential for being distinct. In his large-scale paintings we see color interwoven and mixed, becoming an active agent in representing the essential power that light has in identifying the entirety of our world. To quote the artist directly from his statements on color:

What is most interesting to me is a fusion between cultures where things that seem faraway and disparate have the ability to function within an almost seamless flow. The fusion I seek is one that can represent a type of living within a world of difference. No matter the discord, I believe through art there is a way to weave the different parts into an existent whole, and where metaphorically, the notion of a common humanity can be understood as a real choice.