Stronger Together

Name: Stronger Together
Brand: Raknida
Price: 450.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Anthony Ezeokoye

Geometric illustration of a heart made of overlapping crystal shards in yellow, orange, blue and pink, outlined by translucent facets, on a deep purple background.

$450.00 – $1,050.00

Two hearts built from brilliant crystal shards, joined so closely they read as one. It is Anth Ezeokoye's image of a love made strong by passion and hard work.

Stronger Together 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

Stronger Together
by Anthony Ezeokoye
Igbo · Yr. 2021 · 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.

Look carefully. What reads at first as one heart is two, conjoined, built from brilliant crystal shards that fit so closely the join nearly disappears. That is the whole idea of Stronger Together: when two hearts merge into one, the power they hold cannot be conquered by any outside force.

The shards carry the rest. Anth Ezeokoye uses them to stand for passion, and for the hard work that goes into making any relationship strong. Each facet is a small piece fitted against another. Unless you look closely, you see one heart. That, for anyone who has known real love, is the goal: two people joined so well that the world sees only one. It is a picture for weddings and anniversaries, and for anyone who needs reminding of their own strength.

Motifs in this work

Two conjoined hearts: two people merged into one

Crystal shards: passion and the hard work behind a strong relationship

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.
Year: 2021
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	16 × 24 in	14 × 21 in	$450	+$119	5
L	24 × 36 in	22 × 33 in	$850	+$179	5
XL	32 × 48 in	30 × 45 in	$1,050	+$249	5

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.