Serenity

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

Anthony Ezeokoye

White calligraphy on black of the Serenity Prayer, opening 'Dear God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change', framed by tropical leaves and flowers.

$55.00

Reinhold Niebuhr's Serenity Prayer, opened as a letter to God and lettered in bold white on black by Anth Ezeokoye. Tropical leaves and flowers ring it, from his Dear God collection.

Serenity 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 →

The words belong to the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. They have travelled so far that many who pray them never think to ask whose they are. Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Anth Ezeokoye opens them with Dear God, turning the prayer into a letter, and sets them in bold white lettering on black.

The design carries the meaning. Courage is in the letterforms, heavy and certain. Serenity is in the leaves crowding the dark edges, monstera and palm above, banana leaves and a low bed of flowers below. Wisdom is in the balance between the two, and in the gold-toned flourishes that tie the page together. Find the small red heart beneath the last line. The prayer asks for perspective, and leaves the calm to follow.

Motifs in this work

Bold white lettering: courage, heavy and certain

Tropical leaves on black: serenity gathered around the words

Gold-toned flourishes: wisdom binding the whole together

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: 2022
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

The artist

Anthony Ezeokoye

Igbo · Missouri, USA · Origin: Nigeria · 19 works on Raknida

Anthony “Anth” Ezeokoye (b. 1989) is an international award-winning digital artist, trained architect, creative director, and creative technologist. His practice sits where cultural storytelling meets emerging media. A Nigerian based in St. Louis, with professional roots across Africa’s creative industries, Anth builds visual worlds across illustration, motion, extended reality, and artificial intelligence. He treats technology not as a novelty but as a tool for authorship, access, and cultural continuity.

Across series, collections, and commissions, Anth’s work explores how heritage, identity, and narratives are constructed. He often uses contemporary African visual language to question what we inherit, how we perform, and who we choose to become.

In the A Queen & More collection, he explores the many dimensions of womanhood through 12 character archetypes in a bold, contemporary palette. Layered elements honor choice, complexity, and self-definition. In the Mask Off collection, he positions African heritage as both inheritance and future legacy. Illustration, 3D digital production, and looping animation ask what remains when performative “masks” fall away, and how cultural values can be re-authored today. His calligraphic portrait series, The Autograph, fuses typography, symbolism, and precise craftsmanship, constructing faces from names, dates, quotes, and lived histories.

Anth’s wider career extends into building creative infrastructure. He is the founder of Raknida, an art-tech platform that widens access to cultural stories by underrepresented artists. Its growing suite of products and experiences spans discovery, collection, and display. He has presented and directed creative projects across cultural, art, and design festivals and public-facing contexts. His creative direction runs through two businesses: Insecta Studios, a creative services company in Lagos, Nigeria, and Raknida Inc. in St. Louis. Recognition includes Arch Grants, SOVAS Voice Arts Awards, One Voice Awards USA, and a Future Awards Africa nomination in Arts and Culture.