S triking streaks of vibrant paint run across a collage of various figures on the canvas, depicting a group of children with ominous faces in Aboudia's Street Kids Series 001, a common and prominent motif throughout his oeuvre. As a storyteller of history and culture, the work tells the artist's emotional experience against the historical trauma of war and social oppression. Drawing inspiration from his hometown's local street art culture, Aboudia's figures pay homage to his roots, referencing Nouchi's iconography and traditional forms of Vodou while depicting the urban landscape of wandering children on the streets. Its aggressive lines and overbearing scale propels effects of disorder and conflict, concepts that tie closely to the artist's personal experience growing up in Abidjan.

A firm believer in colour and its fluidity in creation, Aboudia revels in its freedom, “Color is like a character. You do not choose it; it appears”. Demonstrated in the present work, unrestrained lines of greens, oranges and yellows interweave to form wild figures stretching across the canvas, yet still being confined in the pictorial space of the piece subtly exuded a sense of entrapment. Viewers are greeted with a sense of controlled chaos, visualizing a conception of the artist’s experience and emotions through an interplay between innocence and darkness. The overlapping colours, images and multidirectional flow of figures further accentuate the artist’s roots, the street art style capturing the ever-penetrating nature of human emotion. One might see a parallel between the artist’s eccentric style and the works of Jean-Michel Basquiat, in which both are influenced by the ethnic icons of their cultures and utilize them to express their inner minds through art.

Claustrophobic yet creatively liberated, the uncalculated and dynamic composition of the piece emphasise the artist’s identity as a free painter. Strongly influenced by the Ivorian civil war in 2011, Aboudia’s works often portray trauma through menacing imagery of armed soldiers and groups of ghoulish figures. Commentary on social inequalities, documentation of the hardships of mundane life and exposure of the perils of war became common motifs executed through interchanging lines that come together as an expression of his interior world of tangled emotions and ideas about the world.

Street Kids Series 001 documents Aboudia’s culture and history, putting the limelight on street children, an often neglected group that the artist regards as the future. In the artist’s own words, “Consider art as a single entity, and we can move forward by transforming the world with colours.” With the conviction to remove borders in art, Aboudia validates the dreams and stories of children in his work, radiating a powerful sense of belonging to his country and its people through his artistic creations.

阿布迪亞的《街頭兒童系列001》中，鮮豔的油彩劃過畫布上由多個圖像所組成的拼貼畫，描繪了一群面露不安的小孩，而這亦是他眾多作品中經常出現的鮮明主題。作為歷史及文化故事的敘述者，藝術家透過作品闡釋戰爭與社會壓迫下遺留的歷史創傷，以及他面對這種創傷的心路歷程。阿布迪亞從家鄉的街頭藝術文化吸取靈感，以象牙海岸獨有的語言Nouchi的象徵圖像以及巫毒教的形象作參考，描繪了於城市大街上流連的兒童，向他的文化根源致敬。粗獷的線條及龐大的畫幅凸顯了混亂與衝突的效果，而這兩個概念均與藝術家在阿比讓成長的個人經歷息息相關。

阿布迪亞堅信色彩及其流動性，並醉心於色彩所提供的創作自由。他曾說：「色彩就如同個性；人無法挑選，它自會出現」，本作正好展示了這種理念。綠色、橙色及黃色的線條毫無拘束，互相纏繞，形成一個個橫跨整幅畫布的狂野人像，但這些人像同時又受限於畫作的空間，隱隱散發了一絲受困的意味。觀者可從作品中感受到亂中有序的矛盾之感，孩童的天真及周遭的黑暗互相交映，為畫家的經歷及情感賦予具體的形象。重疊的色彩、圖像及向四方八面流動的圖像進一步凸顯了藝術家的文化根源，而街頭藝術風格則捕捉了人類情感觸動人心的本質。細心的觀者或會留意到阿布迪亞別樹一幟的風格，與尚・米榭・巴斯基亞的作品有不少相似之處，這是因爲兩者均受各自的種族文化標誌所影響，並選擇透過這些獨特標誌於藝術中表達其所思所想。

此作品構圖隨性而又富有動態，凸顯了阿布迪亞作為自由畫家的身份。2011年象牙海岸的內戰對阿布迪亞的創作影響深遠，藝術家經常透過持械士兵兇惡危險的形象及一群群鬼魅般的身影，描繪戰爭遺下的創傷。畫作上交叉縱橫的線條表達了藝術家內心纏繞糾結的情緒及對世界的想法，而評論社會不公、紀錄生活困難及揭示戰爭危險亦成為其作品的常見主題。

《街頭兒童系列001》紀錄了阿布迪亞的文化及歷史背景，聚焦於常被人忽略、卻被他視為未來棟樑的街頭兒童。阿布迪亞曾說：「只要將藝術視作個體，我們就可透過色彩改變世界，向前邁進。」他致力於移除藝術中的邊界，在作品中為孩子的夢想及故事予以肯定，透過藝術創作表達對自身國家及同胞的強烈歸屬感。