Nameless 001

Name: Nameless 001
Brand: Raknida
Price: 55.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Godwin Edet Munam

Line illustration of an abstracted face on yellow: one closed blue eye, one open purple eye, a third eye on the brow, patterned blue fingers from the top and a purple triangle.

$55.00

Godwin Edet Munam's Nameless 001 breaks a face into line on bright yellow, with three eyes and blue fingers reaching in from above. It has no name: it is a portrait of a state of mind.

Nameless 001 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 →

Three eyes, and only one of them open to us. In Nameless 001, Godwin Edet Munam lets a face come apart on a field of yellow. One eye is shut under a blue lid, one wide and violet, a third at the brow with a spiral for a pupil. Blue fingers, banded with carved-looking pattern, reach down from the top edge as if to lift the face away, or set it in place.

The series title is the point. A face with no name is no one's portrait, so it can hold whatever is brought to it: a mood, a prayer, a pause. Find the small stitched mark on the left cheek and the three dots below the lips, details a quick look misses. Nameless 001 is a face as a doorway, and the longer one looks, the more it belongs to the person looking.

Motifs in this work

Third eye with spiral pupil: inner sight, awake while one eye sleeps

Blue patterned fingers: hands from above, lifting or settling the face

Purple wedge: a shaft of shadow cutting the face in two

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: 2021
Includes: Your numbered artwork and its Cultural Passport.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
S	8 × 12 in	6½ × 9¼ in	$55	+$65	20

The artist

Godwin Edet Munam

Undeclared · Asaba, Nigeria · 3 works on Raknida

Godwin Edet Munam is an illustrator based in Asaba, Nigeria, who works as Gem Illustr8ed and signs each picture with a small boxed GEM monogram and the month it was finished. His subject is what cannot be seen: guardians, inner states, the spirit-self and the pull of ancestry, treated not as mystery but as an ordinary part of life. He draws in bold black line over flat, saturated colour, yellow, violet, night blue, and even at its most cosmic, the mood of his work is calm.

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