Vortex

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

Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon

Abstract digital artwork of a pale glowing circle crossed by a thin horizontal white line, surrounded by dark torn textures, peach shapes and streaks of rainbow colour on a gradient ground.

$55.00 – $125.00

Dark, torn forms and prismatic streaks whirl around a pale, glowing circle crossed by one thin white line. Ai_mayor's abstract image of despair, and of the stillness that outlasts it.

Vortex 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 →

Every tornado has a middle. In Vortex, Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon paints a moment of despair as a storm that pulls you in. Dark, torn forms and streaks of prismatic colour whirl around a pale, glowing circle. That circle, he says, is you, drawn into the middle of everything that is happening.

Now look for the thin white line that runs straight across the circle and out the other side. It is the quietest mark in the picture, and the most important. "The line across the circle is a line that represents stillness," he explains. His advice is the whole meaning of the work: "Just be still. Don't fight it, let things happen." With time, he promises, the tornado will die down, and things will go back to the way they were.

Motifs in this work

Whirling forms: the situations that draw you into despair

Pale circle at the centre: you, in the middle of it all

White line across the circle: stillness

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.
Year: 2023
Includes: Your numbered artwork and its Cultural Passport.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
S	9 × 12 in	7½ × 10¼ in	$55	+$65	20
M	18 × 24 in	16 × 22 in	$85	+$119	20
L	24 × 32 in	22 × 30 in	$125	+$179	20

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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