Somebody

Name: Somebody
Brand: Raknida
Price: 45.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon

Surreal portrait of a figure with locs and folded arms in a black sweater, face blacked out except silver eyes and lips, a red and blue betta fish on the shoulder, on a yellow-to-pink gradient.

$45.00 – $110.00

A figure with folded arms and a blacked-out face shows only silver eyes and lips. In Ai_mayor's surreal portrait, a red and blue betta fish drapes across one shoulder.

Somebody 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 →

Somebody: the word for a person you can't, or won't, name. Ai_mayor paints exactly that. The figure stands with arms folded in a black sweater, locs falling past the shoulders. The face is filled in with black, leaving only silver eyes and silver lips to look back at us. You know someone is there. You will not find out who.

Then there is the fish. A betta, red and blue, its fins trailing like silk, lies draped across one shoulder as calmly as a scarf. A pink disc rises behind the head and flat geometric planes cut through a sky that shifts from yellow to pink. Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon keeps his figures half-hidden and half-revealed, and Somebody pushes that furthest. The person disappears, and the brightest, most living detail is the fish. Look at how still it lies.

Motifs in this work

The blacked-out face: a person present but unnamed

The betta fish: the one bright, living detail

The pink disc: a halo behind the hidden face

Edition: Edition of 20 in each size · 60 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	8 × 10 in	6½ × 7¾ in	$45	+$65	20
M	16 × 20 in	14 × 16¾ in	$75	+$119	20
L	24 × 30 in	22 × 26½ in	$110	+$179	20

The artist

Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon

Yoruba · Lagos, Nigeria · 7 works on Raknida

Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon, who works as Ai_mayor, is a digital artist based in Lagos, Nigeria. He tells stories about himself and his culture through colour, he says. Working in Photoshop and Affinity, he makes expressive digital works rooted in identity, memory and everyday life. He often sets faces and figures among flowers, marbled surfaces and fabric pattern. He describes his art as personal and bold, a visual language where colour carries feeling. Each piece becomes a story that feels both intimate and collective.

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