River Journey

Name: River Journey
Brand: Raknida
Price: 450.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Marjory Yeko Jewitt

Black ink line drawing of a tall woman in a headwrap and long garment holding a staff, walking through water patterned with circles, with mountains, a field of crops, a wavy sky and a round moon.

$450.00 – $1,050.00

A tall woman with a staff walks through a river drawn as a field of circles, beneath mountains and a round moon. It is Yeko's line drawing of self-discovery and growth.

River Journey is a Limited Edition: 5 museum-quality art prints in each size, final and never rerun. Each is numbered in its white border, with a Certificate signed by our curator or founder. Every artwork comes with its Cultural Passport.

What you receive

Every Limited Edition comes with its story and its signed certificate.

How it works →

Cultural
Passport

River Journey
by Marjory Yeko Jewitt
Ugandan · Ed. of 5
Ltd. Ed.+ Signed COA
Cultural Passport
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.
Signed Certificate of Authenticity
Signed by our curator or founder, numbered to match your artwork, and mailed separately within 7 working days of your artwork shipping.

Yeko describes River Journey in a single line: a spiritual journey of self discovery and growth. The woman at its centre is tall and unhurried, wrapped from head to foot, a staff in her hand. She walks through water drawn as a field of small circles. Nothing about her is in a hurry to arrive.

Marjory Yeko Jewitt draws in dense black line, closer to a woodcut than a sketch. Everything in the picture comes from the same rhythm: mountains built from parallel strokes, rows of crops along the bank. The sky ripples like the water below, and a round moon keeps watch. Look at the staff. It is the one straight line in a world of curves, the steadiness she has brought with her. The figure belongs to anyone partway through becoming who they are.

Motifs in this work

The river of circles: the path taken step by step

The staff: steadiness carried through change

Mountains and crops: the distance travelled and the growth ahead

Edition: Edition of 5 in each size · 15 across all sizes. Final — never rerun.
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, its Cultural Passport and a Certificate of Authenticity signed by our curator or founder, numbered to match your artwork. Your signed Certificate of Authenticity is mailed separately, within 7 working days of your artwork shipping.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
M	18 × 24 in	15½ × 22 in	$450	+$119	5
L	24 × 32 in	21¼ × 30 in	$850	+$179	5
XL	36 × 48 in	32½ × 46 in	$1,050	+$249	5

The artist

Marjory Yeko Jewitt

Ugandan · Kampala, Uganda · 5 works on Raknida

Marjory Yeko Jewitt, who works as Yeko, is a Ugandan illustrator based in Kampala. She draws in bold black and white, with a dense, rhythmic line closer in feeling to a woodcut than a sketch, and the same strokes run through sky, land, cloth and skin, so that a figure and her surroundings seem cut from one block. Her subjects are the women who hold East African daily life together, and the patterned vessels, cloth and cowrie-like shapes that fill her sheets come from the visual language of everyday Ugandan life, drawn with the same care she gives a face.

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