Loved

Name: Loved
Brand: Raknida
Price: 55.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Anthony Ezeokoye

Bold black calligraphy reading 'Dear God when I forget remind me that I am Loved' on white, with 'Loved' largest, framed by green leaves and orange tropical flowers, and a small red heart.

$55.00

A hand-lettered prayer from Anth Ezeokoye's Dear God collection, for the days the noise gets in. It reads: Dear God, when I forget, remind me that I am loved.

Loved is a Studio Edition: 20 museum-quality art prints in each size, each numbered in its white border. Every artwork comes with its Cultural Passport.

The Cultural Passport

Every order comes with the heritage documented.

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.

How it works →

There is a kind of forgetting that happens on ordinary days. Nothing has gone wrong; the noise has simply got in, and a person mislays the one fact that should be hardest to lose. Loved is the prayer for that day: Dear God, when I forget, remind me that I am loved.

Anth Ezeokoye letters the last word so large it nearly spans the page, with a small red heart tucked beneath it. So the certainty lives in the type itself. Leaves and tropical flowers drift in from the edges, and pale gold-toned flourishes move behind the words like a pulse. Part of the Dear God collection, Loved rises above the opinions of other people and keeps sight of what matters most. It is a reminder, for whoever reads it, that they are seen and loved unconditionally.

Motifs in this work

The word Loved: the answer lettered larger than the request

Small red heart: love at the centre, beneath every line

Waving greenery: life going on gently around the words

Edition: Edition of 20 in each size · 20 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 and its Cultural Passport.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
S	8 × 12 in	6½ × 9¾ in	$55	+$65	20

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.