Butterflies

Name: Butterflies
Brand: Raknida
Price: 250.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Adeyemo Ekundayo

Digital fashion illustration of three women in wide hats: at centre a figure in a yellow wing-panelled jacket and pleated skirt, flanked by one in black and silver and one in lavender.

$250.00 – $600.00

Three women under wide hats, the one at the centre in yellow, wearing sculpted jackets and gowns whose panels open like butterfly wings.

Butterflies is a Collector Edition: 10 museum-quality art prints in each size. Each is numbered in its white border and issued with a digital Certificate of Authenticity. Every artwork comes with its Cultural Passport.

What you receive

Every Collector Edition comes with its story and its certificate.

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Cultural
Passport

Butterflies
by Adeyemo Ekundayo
Yoruba · Yr. 2022 · Ed. of 10
Coll. Ed.+ COA
Cultural Passport
Digital, emailed when your order ships: the work's story, the tradition it draws on and how it was made. 5 × 7 in (13 × 18 cm), ready to print and frame beside the work.
Digital Certificate of Authenticity
Issued digitally with your Collector Edition.

A butterfly’s beauty is half the story; the other half is the change it took to get there. Adeyemo Ekundayo dresses three women for the moment of emerging: wide hats, faces barely there, and at the centre a woman in yellow from crown to hem, her jacket opening in rounded panels like wings unfolding. It is the final look of a show, the instant the room turns to see who has arrived, transformed. Beside her stand women in black and silver, and in lavender. Ekundayo keeps their faces in shadow and gives the clothes full volume, flecked with white light along every pleat, so the change is worn rather than shown.

The culture · Lagos, southwest Nigeria. Lagos is one of Africa’s fashion capitals: its designers, tailors and annual fashion weeks draw buyers and press from around the world to Nigerian style.

Motifs in this work

Wing-like panels: garments that open like butterflies

Shaded faces under wide brims: the clothes and carriage speak

White highlights on every pleat: fabric caught in light

Edition: Edition of 10 in each size · 30 across all sizes. Further runs possible once a size sells out, each tagged (Run 2). Edition numbers count the works sold through Raknida; the artist may also sell their own editions of this work.
Numbering: Number, title and artist printed in the white border.
Printing: Museum-quality giclée with archival pigment inks on museum-grade cotton fine art paper.
Year: 2022
Includes: Your numbered artwork, its Cultural Passport and a digital Certificate of Authenticity.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
M	16 × 20 in	14 × 17½ in	$250	+$119	10
L	24 × 30 in	22 × 27½ in	$400	+$179	10
XL	32 × 40 in	30 × 37½ in	$600	+$249	10

The artist

Adeyemo Ekundayo

Yoruba · Lagos, Nigeria · 5 works on Raknida

Adeyemo Ekundayo is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist based in Lagos, Nigeria, whose practice explores the metaphysical, political structures and fashion. Working in acrylic, oil, charcoal and digital media, he uses an expressive visual language, rooted in expressionism, of bold gestures, layered imagery and symbolism. Fashion is his way into identity and society; spirituality is his frame for what lies beyond ordinary perception. At the core of his practice is the belief that there is more to life than what we see. On Raknida, his figures are left in pencil while the clothes are painted in full.

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