Sunrise

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

Emmanuel Abakah

Digital portrait of a Black woman with vitiligo, eyes closed, face lifted to a purple sunrise sky, wearing large green hoop earrings.

$55.00

A Black woman with vitiligo lifts her face to a purple sunrise, her patches painted as soft clouds of light. It is by self-taught Ghanaian artist Emmanuel Abakah.

Sunrise 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 →

Emmanuel Abakah made Sunrise for every Black woman who has ever felt unsure of her skin. He chose the morning because, as he says, every sunrise is different and every one is beautiful. So he painted a woman with vitiligo at first light. He gave her patches the same soft shapes as the clouds drifting behind her: not flaws to cover, but light breaking through.

Her eyes are closed. Not to hide, he says, but to feel the first warmth of the sun on her face. Emmanuel taught himself to draw as a boy, in graphite, chasing realism; here that patience turns into colour. And the message he wants her to carry is plain enough to read every morning: you don't need to fit in the light. You are the light.

Motifs in this work

Vitiligo painted as clouds: light breaking through skin

Eyes closed: feeling the sun, not hiding from it

Sunrise: every one different, every one beautiful

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	9 × 12 in	7½ × 10½ in	$55	+$65	20

The artist

Emmanuel Abakah

Undeclared · Takoradi, Ghana · 3 works on Raknida

Emmanuel Abakah is a self-taught artist in Takoradi, Ghana. He started as a child with graphite pencils, teaching himself realistic drawing. He later carried that discipline into digital painting, where his drawings take on bold, saturated colour. His subject is the Black woman: her beauty, strength and identity. A woman with vitiligo at sunrise, a mermaid with an afro and a crown, a woman who wears Africa on her skin. He makes each portrait so that women see themselves as powerful, unique and worthy of celebration.

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