Psalm 12

Name: Psalm 12
Brand: Raknida
Price: 55.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Precious Emeka Anih

Illustration of a hunched young man in a dark hoodie hugging himself, head bowed and trailing dark smoke with embers, as many hands reach toward him from a red sky; pale gold light at right.

$55.00

A young man in a hoodie hugs himself as hands reach from a burning red sky, smoke pouring from his head. Precious Emeka Anih's Psalm 12 is a faith artwork about pressure, burnout and the slow return of the creative fire.

Psalm 12 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 →

Pressure can come from every direction at once. Precious Emeka Anih paints it as dozens of hands reaching in on a hooded young man doubled over against a burning sky, his head pouring smoke. As a first son, he was “pressed away from art” by duty: three years of work he did not love, until his creative fire began to ebb. Psalm 12 opens with a cry for help. So does this, and the healing is still under way. To the right, the sky thins to pale gold, the one direction no hand comes from, and that is the way he faces.

The culture · Nigeria, West Africa. In many Nigerian families the first son, called opara in Igbo, inherits duty early: providing for parents and siblings often comes before his own dreams.

Motifs in this work

Reaching hands: the pressures of duty and money, on every side

Smoke from the head: a creative fire burning low

Pale gold light: the healing still under way

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.
Includes: Your numbered artwork and its Cultural Passport.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
S	12 × 8 in	9¾ × 6½ in	$55	+$65	19

The artist

Precious Emeka Anih

Undeclared · Lagos, Nigeria · 1 works on Raknida

Precious Emeka Anih, who works as Weird Zesty, is a storytelling artist based in Lagos, Nigeria, with well over a decade of telling stories through lines and colours in the digital space. His illustrations draw on the Book of Revelation and the Psalms and set their words in the present day, often as his own story. "Stories are worth telling," in his words, "and the means of telling are vast." In his series Psalms of a Lazy Weird Boy, the psalms become a diary of pressure, failure and slow recovery.

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