Village Girl

Name: Village Girl
Brand: Raknida
Price: 250.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Marjory Yeko Jewitt

Dense black-and-white line drawing of a young woman with spiral-patterned hair and a decorated pot on her head, beside a tall staff, in a landscape of hills and fields drawn in flowing parallel lines.

$250.00 – $600.00

A young woman with a decorated pot on her head stands in a landscape of hills and fields. All of it is drawn in the same flowing black line. Yeko's portrait of the everyday work that holds a village together.

Village Girl 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

Village Girl
by Marjory Yeko Jewitt
Ugandan · 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.

Marjory Yeko Jewitt builds sky, hills, fields and girl from the same rhythm of parallel black strokes, so the curves of the young woman’s body run on into the swell of the land until it is hard to tell where she ends and the earth begins. She stands with a patterned pot on her head and a tall staff at her side. Across much of Africa the earth is spoken of as a mother. Here, daughter and land are drawn as one. No hardship is staged and no pity is asked for: the girl belongs to her place, and her place to her.

The culture · Uganda, East Africa. Uganda straddles the equator where the Nile leaves Lake Victoria. It is home to many peoples, from the Baganda, whose kingdom still crowns a king, to Ankole’s proud cattle-keepers.

Motifs in this work

Pot on the head: everyday labour that sustains a household

Body and land in one line: the girl belongs to her place

Crown of spiral hair: her own pattern within the landscape

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 × 16 in	14 × 14 in	$250	+$119	10
L	24 × 24 in	22 × 22 in	$400	+$179	10
XL	32 × 32 in	30 × 30 in	$600	+$249	10

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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