Notice Me

Name: Notice Me
Brand: Raknida
Price: 55.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Michael C. Ekenobi

Illustration of a blue-skinned woman, head tilted back and eyes closed, white scalloped pattern on face and chest, flower earring, flying bead necklace, before a pale dripping moon on red swirls.

$55.00

A young woman drawn in blues throws her head back, eyes closed, her skin patterned in fine white scallops. Behind her are a dripping pale moon and churning red scrollwork.

Notice Me 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 →

She has already been noticed, and she knows it. Mikenobi draws a young woman with her head thrown back and her eyes closed, her hair rising in a dark crest. A string of blue beads swings free of her neck as if she has only just turned.

Look at her skin. Across her face, throat and chest runs a fine scalloped pattern, white over blue. It is the same texture that fills the cheeks of his Introspection, so she seems dressed in her own surface. Flower-shaped discs repeat at her ear and her chest. A pale moon sits behind her like a spotlight, and at its lower edge it drips, as though the paint were still wet. Around it, red scrollwork churns. Being seen is a pleasure, and in a city like Lagos it can be a strategy too. Mikenobi gives her the stage without asking her to apologise for wanting it.

Motifs in this work

Head thrown back, eyes closed: the pleasure of being watched

Dripping moon: a spotlight that seems to melt at its edge

Flower discs: adornment repeated at ear and chest

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: 2023
Includes: Your numbered artwork and its Cultural Passport.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
S	9 × 12 in	7½ × 9¾ in	$55	+$65	20

The artist

Michael C. Ekenobi

Undeclared · Lagos, Nigeria · 2 works on Raknida

Michael C. Ekenobi, who signs his work Mikenobi, is a Nigerian multidisciplinary visual artist based in Lagos. His work sits where contemporary African storytelling, symbolic illustration and commercial visual culture meet. With over a decade in advertising, he has worked as an art director and visual creative on campaigns for major brands across Nigeria and Africa, in entertainment, lifestyle, FMCG and youth culture. That discipline gives his own practice its precision and narrative focus: bold illustration systems, doodle-inspired art and narrative-driven compositions, balanced by intuitive creativity.

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