Missus

Name: Missus
Brand: Raknida
Price: 45.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon

Portrait of a woman with two afro buns in black and white, diagonal shadow stripes across her face, a pink dahlia behind her head, a hand on her shoulder, on a peach-to-violet gradient.

$45.00 – $110.00

A woman with two neat buns wears a pink dahlia behind her head. Ai_mayor's layered portrait sets her black-and-white face against a peach-to-violet sky.

Missus 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 →

Missus is what you call the woman of the house, and Ai_mayor gives her the bearing to match. She has two neat buns crowning her head and a pink dahlia opening behind them like a halo. A hand rests on her shoulder, though whose hand it is he leaves unsaid.

Her face is drawn in black and white, with diagonal bars of shadow falling across it as if light were coming through blinds. Everything around her is colour. There is a peach sky darkening to violet, a scatter of pink and teal specks, and vertical stripes at the base of the picture. That contrast is how Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon builds his portraits, the figure half-hidden and half-revealed inside the layers. Look at the hand on her shoulder. It turns a portrait of composure into a portrait of company.

Motifs in this work

The pink dahlia: a halo of colour behind a black-and-white face

Bars of shadow: light falling across her as if through blinds

The hand on her shoulder: an unseen companion

Edition: Edition of 20 in each size · 60 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.
Includes: Your numbered artwork and its Cultural Passport.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
S	8 × 10 in	6½ × 7¾ in	$45	+$65	20
M	16 × 20 in	14 × 16¾ in	$75	+$119	20
L	24 × 30 in	22 × 26½ in	$110	+$179	20

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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