In Silk

Name: In Silk
Brand: Raknida
Price: 250.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon

Digital portrait of a woman in black and white with shaved head tipped back and eyes closed, a white circle drawn around one eye, framed by blue and magenta Ankara wax-print fabric and peach satin petals.

$250.00 – $600.00

A woman in black and white tips her head back, eyes closed, wrapped in Ankara wax-print cloth and satin petals. It is Ai_mayor's tribute to Nigerian fashion, where African fabric is luxury. A bold African fashion artwork for a bedroom, living room or boutique hotel.

In Silk is a Collector Edition: 10 museum-quality art prints in each size, each numbered in its white border 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

In Silk
by Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon
Yoruba · Yr. 2023 · 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.

Silk has always meant luxury. Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon gives the word to Ankara, West Africa’s bold wax-print cloth, and wraps a woman in it, eyes closed, face lifted, silken petals opening around her like a garden. “In Silk is me portraying African textile and fashion,” he says. The title is the statement: our own fabrics are premium enough to be couture, worn with pride every day and on every occasion that matters. All the colour in the picture belongs to the cloth, and she wears it the way one wears something precious, without needing to look.

The culture · Ankara, Nigeria and West Africa. Ankara, African wax print, began as Dutch copies of Indonesian batik. In Nigeria it became couture, tailored for work, worship and owambe, and chosen as aso ebi for celebrations.

Motifs in this work

Ankara wax print: Nigeria's everyday couture

Satin petals: silk's luxury, claimed for African cloth

Head tipped back, eyes closed: the private pleasure of feeling beautiful

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: 2023
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 × 17¼ in	$250	+$119	10
L	24 × 30 in	22 × 27¼ in	$400	+$179	10
XL	32 × 40 in	30 × 37 in	$600	+$249	10

The artist

Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon

Yoruba · Lagos, Nigeria · 7 works on Raknida

Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon, who works as Ai_mayor, is a digital artist based in Lagos, Nigeria. He tells stories about himself and his culture through colour, he says. Working in Photoshop and Affinity, he makes expressive digital works rooted in identity, memory and everyday life. He often sets faces and figures among flowers, marbled surfaces and fabric pattern. He describes his art as personal and bold, a visual language where colour carries feeling. Each piece becomes a story that feels both intimate and collective.

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