Stainless

Name: Stainless
Brand: Raknida
Price: 250.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon

$250.00 – $600.00

A black profile with closed eyes and a single white mark at the eye. In Ai_mayor's graphic portrait, purple and pink flowers ring it on bright green.

Stainless is a Collector Edition: 10 museum-quality art prints in each size, each numbered in its white border with a digital Certificate of Authenticity. Every artwork comes with its Cultural Passport.

What you receive

Every Collector Edition comes with its story and its certificate.

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Cultural
Passport

Stainless
by Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon
Yoruba · Ed. of 10
Coll. Ed.+ 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.
Digital Certificate of Authenticity
Issued digitally with your Collector Edition.

Stainless is a profile cut in pure black, eyes closed, set against a green so bright it almost hums. Ai_mayor gives the silhouette one white mark, a small circle with a line at the eye, like a monocle or a glint of light. He lets purple and pink flowers crowd in around the head.

The title is the key. Stainless is the word for a surface nothing sticks to, and the figure has that quality. It is unmarked and composed, with the colour and pattern around it never quite touching it. Black-and-white stripes break across the picture and a purple disc hangs behind like a sun, but the face stays clear. Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon builds his portraits by hiding and revealing the figure in layers. Here he reduces the person to an outline and still makes it the calmest thing in the frame. Find the white circle at the eye, the one point of light he allows.

Motifs in this work

The black profile: a person reduced to outline, eyes closed

The white circle at the eye: the one point of light

Purple and pink flowers: colour crowding in, never touching

Edition: Edition of 10 in each size · 30 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, its Cultural Passport and a digital Certificate of Authenticity.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
M	16 × 20 in	14 × 17¼ in	$250	+$119	10
L	24 × 30 in	22 × 27¼ in	$400	+$179	10
XL	32 × 40 in	30 × 37 in	$600	+$249	10

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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