Light Others

Name: Light Others
Brand: Raknida
Price: 450.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Anthony Ezeokoye

Illustration of five tall candles with dripping wax, their flames glowing, set at different heights against a gradient from yellow to deep orange.

$450.00 – $1,050.00

Fiery colour that seems to burn from within carries Anth Ezeokoye's message in Light Others: no candle ever loses its light by lighting others.

Light Others is a Limited Edition: 5 museum-quality art prints in each size, final and never rerun. Each is numbered in its white border, with a Certificate signed by our curator or founder. Every artwork comes with its Cultural Passport.

What you receive

Every Limited Edition comes with its story and its signed certificate.

How it works →

Cultural
Passport

Light Others
by Anthony Ezeokoye
Igbo · Ed. of 5
Ltd. Ed.+ Signed 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.
Signed Certificate of Authenticity
Signed by our curator or founder, numbered to match your artwork, and mailed separately within 7 working days of your artwork shipping.

No candle ever loses its light by lighting others. The saying is old and simple, and Light Others takes it at its word. Darkness, here, is defeated the only way the saying allows, by helping others to shine.

Five candles burn at different heights, wax running down their sides, each flame lit from the one beside it. The colours are fiery, chosen to give the illusion of light burning from within. The work comes in two versions, one blue and one orange, made to hang side by side. It is about the kind of generosity that costs nothing and multiplies: the teacher, the mentor, the friend who passes the flame along. Anth Ezeokoye counts teaching and mentoring young designers and creatives among his own commitments, and the picture reads like his reminder of why. A light shared is still a light kept.

Motifs in this work

Five candles: light passed from one to the next without being lost

Running wax: the giving that keeps a light going

Fiery colour: the illusion of light burning from within

Edition: Edition of 5 in each size · 15 across all sizes. Final — never rerun.
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.
Includes: Your numbered artwork, its Cultural Passport and a Certificate of Authenticity signed by our curator or founder, numbered to match your artwork. Your signed Certificate of Authenticity is mailed separately, within 7 working days of your artwork shipping.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
M	16 × 24 in	14 × 21 in	$450	+$119	5
L	24 × 36 in	22 × 33 in	$850	+$179	5
XL	32 × 48 in	30 × 45 in	$1,050	+$249	5

The artist

Anthony Ezeokoye

Igbo · Missouri, USA · Origin: Nigeria · 19 works on Raknida

Anthony “Anth” Ezeokoye (b. 1989) is an international award-winning digital artist, trained architect, creative director, and creative technologist. His practice sits where cultural storytelling meets emerging media. A Nigerian based in St. Louis, with professional roots across Africa’s creative industries, Anth builds visual worlds across illustration, motion, extended reality, and artificial intelligence. He treats technology not as a novelty but as a tool for authorship, access, and cultural continuity.

Across series, collections, and commissions, Anth’s work explores how heritage, identity, and narratives are constructed. He often uses contemporary African visual language to question what we inherit, how we perform, and who we choose to become.

In the A Queen & More collection, he explores the many dimensions of womanhood through 12 character archetypes in a bold, contemporary palette. Layered elements honor choice, complexity, and self-definition. In the Mask Off collection, he positions African heritage as both inheritance and future legacy. Illustration, 3D digital production, and looping animation ask what remains when performative “masks” fall away, and how cultural values can be re-authored today. His calligraphic portrait series, The Autograph, fuses typography, symbolism, and precise craftsmanship, constructing faces from names, dates, quotes, and lived histories.

Anth’s wider career extends into building creative infrastructure. He is the founder of Raknida, an art-tech platform that widens access to cultural stories by underrepresented artists. Its growing suite of products and experiences spans discovery, collection, and display. He has presented and directed creative projects across cultural, art, and design festivals and public-facing contexts. His creative direction runs through two businesses: Insecta Studios, a creative services company in Lagos, Nigeria, and Raknida Inc. in St. Louis. Recognition includes Arch Grants, SOVAS Voice Arts Awards, One Voice Awards USA, and a Future Awards Africa nomination in Arts and Culture.