Mojisola

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

Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel Komaiya

Illustration of a green mask-like face with blue eyelids, red beaded locs, tongue out and a star by the nose, purple spikes around it, set like a playing card with a red M in the corners on ochre.

$55.00 – $125.00

A green mask-face with blue eyelids, beaded red locs and her tongue out, set like a playing card on ochre. It is KeO's portrait of the girl named Mojisola.

Mojisola 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 →

Mojisola sticks her tongue out at us, and that is the first thing to love about her. KeO, the name Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel Komaiya signs with, describes her simply as a mask depicting the beauty of a young lady. He lays her out like a playing card: a red M in two corners, a miniature of her in the other two. It is all on a warm ochre ground.

Her face is green, her eyelids blue, her red locs threaded with beads, and a small star sits by her nose like a beauty mark. Purple spikes fan out around her. Mojisola is a Yoruba name, often translated as waking into wealth, and KeO gives it to a girl with no interest in behaving. Next to the composed faces of Abike, Shindara and Yemisi, she is the one who breaks the pose.

Motifs in this work

The playing-card layout: her initial in two corners, her miniature in two

The tongue out: beauty with a sense of humour

The star by her nose: a beauty mark drawn as a star

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 × 12 in	6½ × 9¾ in	$55	+$65	20
M	16 × 24 in	14 × 21 in	$85	+$119	20
L	24 × 36 in	22 × 33 in	$125	+$179	20

The artist

Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel Komaiya

Yoruba · Lagos, Nigeria · 4 works on Raknida

KeO is the name Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel Komaiya signs his work with, an illustrator based in Lagos, Nigeria. His three works on Raknida, Abike, Shindara and Yemisi, are built like playing cards. Each carries a girl's Yoruba name, its initial looping in two corners and a miniature of the figure in the other two. At the centre sits a mask-like face in flat, saturated colour. In every one the comb appears, as a body, as earrings, as hanging ornament. The result is playful and ceremonial at once, a hand of named girls.

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