Source

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

Marjory Yeko Jewitt

$55.00 – $125.00

A mask in profile, built from cowries, eyes and waves, holds a night sky inside it. Yeko's line drawing treats the mask as identity and a channel for the gods.

Source 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 →

For Yeko, the mask is where a people and their gods meet. In her words it is a symbol of identity and a channel for the gods to speak and visit its people. Source draws that idea as a single face in profile, built entirely from pattern. The pattern is rows of cowries, open eyes, rolling waves, each band packed into the next.

Look for the panel of night sky, with a moon above a line of mountains, as if the mask held a whole landscape inside it. That is the sense of the title: the face is a doorway, and what comes through it comes from somewhere older and larger. Marjory Yeko Jewitt works in bold black line, as dense as a woodcut. Here every mark belongs to the face, so the identity and the world it comes from are drawn as one thing.

Motifs in this work

Cowries: rows of shells built into the face

The night-sky panel: a landscape held inside the mask

Open eyes: the mask looking out as the gods look in

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	9 × 12 in	7½ × 10½ in	$55	+$65	20
M	18 × 24 in	15½ × 22 in	$85	+$119	20
L	24 × 32 in	21¼ × 30 in	$125	+$179	20

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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