Offiong Edet Okon an Efik man is a native of Okoyong Usang Abasi, Odukpani LGA, Cross River State. He was born on the 4th of June 1992, in Calabar south, Cross River state. He grew up in Diamond Hill Calabar. He attended Hope Waddle Nursery & Primary School from 1993 to 2001 then for Secondary school he attended West African People’s institute from 2002 to 2009. In 2011 he got admission into Cross River university of technology and graduated in 2016 with a major in Sculpting and a Degree in Visual Arts. From nursery school Okon picked up an interest in art and that interest grew up with him until it became a professional skill. Growing up he aspired to be either an architect or a fine artist. His ambition never really changed as he ended up studying Visual Arts in the university and eventually became an Artist. Okon’s ultimate goal is to change the narrative of arts in Africa hence his deviation from Conventional Art. Okon is a professional fabricator (a fabricator is one who constructs something as a piece of machinery from raw materials). He makes unique pieces of Art out of odd materials mostly scrap junk; either metal or wood; whatever he can imagine and lay his hands on. He once turned an old steering wheel and car door into a coffee table.
