Under My Sun

Name: Under My Sun
Brand: Raknida
Price: 55.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Marjory Yeko Jewitt

Black-and-white illustration of a pregnant woman with eyes closed, one arm raised to balance a tall patterned vessel on her head, large flowers and a small bird beside her, on a black ground.

$55.00 – $125.00

A pregnant woman, drawn in bold white line on black, balances a patterned vessel on her head among opening flowers. Yeko's portrait of carrying a child, named for one of her own.

Under My Sun 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 →

Ask any parent what they carry, and the list never ends. Marjory Yeko Jewitt draws a pregnant woman in white line out of a black ground, steadying a tall patterned vessel on her head: the weight above, the weight within, both held with ease. Yeko calls her son her Sun, and once you know that, the title reads like a signature. Under my Sun is a mother preparing a world for her child. Look at her belly, where Yeko has drawn two seed-like shapes inside a radiating pattern: new life rendered as ornament.

The culture · Uganda, East Africa. Called the Pearl of Africa, Uganda is home to more than fifty peoples speaking over forty languages. Family runs wide: aunts, grandmothers and neighbours all share in raising a child.

Motifs in this work

Vessel balanced on the head: provision and the daily work of carrying

Seed shapes in the belly: new life, still becoming

Flowers opening beside her: growth and the life to come

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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