O-T Fagbenle Instagram – This picture was taken by extraordinary photographer and my great personal friend @jmichaellorch – he tells stories through a single image. This is the text that accompanies this image.. THANK YOU JEFF! “My paternal ancestor, Lutiseku – which means great things to come – brought the Fagbenle clan across Nigeria to settle in Ibadjo. His son was similarly not one for settling, captaining some of Nigeria’s first railway trains cutting their way across Yoruba land. My maternal grandfather sailed across from the UK to Australia and piloted the first airplanes across the Antipodean skies during WWI.
My parents lived in many cities in my formative years, and, after receiving my first sax at 10 years old, I soon began touring Europe playing in “big bands” up until my early teens.
Samuel Beckett says there are two types of fools—the ones who stay put and the ones who keep moving. I am from lines of the latter.
In 2019 I took 52 flights — that’s one flight a week the entire year. I had also pushed myself over the past few years to accomplish more than I considered myself capable of doing to write, direct, produce and act for the TV show MAXXX. It was the hardest thing I had ever done. Then Covid paused it all.
I spent 5 months living in Tanzania with my mom in a small fishing and arts town on the edge of the Indian Ocean, Bagamoyo. I never thought I would enjoy a rural life, preferring the constant, moving energy of cities and travel–but I loved it. Homeschooling with my niece and nephews, drives through the beautiful country of Tanzania, a slower pace of life. Rest.
Things are gearing back up now, this summer I’ve seen airports in Dar Es Salaam, Amsterdam, London, Mexico, Los Angeles, Quebec and Toronto. Though for 2020 I’m trying to carry a piece of the rural with me, finding some still, while moving fast…” | Posted on 06/Oct/2020 00:39:25
