Zen Flower

Name: Zen Flower
Brand: Raknida
Price: 45.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Ibrahim Buhari Gambo

Square black-and-white pattern drawing of a central five-petal flower with curling banded petals, surrounded by dense leaves, scrolls, hatching and straight radiating lines.

$45.00

A single dark bloom spins at the centre of Ibrahim Buhari Gambo's Zen Flower. Its black-and-white pattern spreads to every edge in leaves, scrolls and fine hatching.

Zen Flower 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 →

The eye keeps finding more. At the centre of Zen Flower a dark bloom spins around a white star, five curling petals banded like ribbons. From it the pattern spreads to every edge: leaves, scalloped clouds, scrolls, chevrons, fine parallel hatching, all in black and white. Straight lines cut across the whole drawing like rays, as if light were passing through it.

Ibrahim Buhari Gambo takes his title from Zen, the meditative school of Buddhism, and the picture behaves like a practice. There is no story to follow and no figure to meet, only the pleasure of tracing one shape into the next. Each return turns up something missed before: an eye-like roundel among the leaves, a row of tiny teeth along a petal. It is a drawing for slow looking, and it pays back every minute given to it.

Motifs in this work

Whirling five-petal bloom: the still centre the pattern turns around

Straight rays: lines of light cutting across the dense field

Eye-like roundels: small watchful forms hidden among the leaves

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.
Includes: Your numbered artwork and its Cultural Passport.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
S	10 × 10 in	8½ × 8½ in	$45	+$65	20

The artist

Ibrahim Buhari Gambo

Undeclared · Abuja, Nigeria · 3 works on Raknida

Ibrahim Buhari Gambo is an Abuja-based artist who works and signs as Mojozorro, sometimes shortened to MZ. He draws in black and white only, and he fills every surface: dense, often mirrored compositions of cross-hatching, roundels, rays and flowers, with every line placed with intent. Symmetry and density do the work in his pictures, and the reward goes to whoever looks longest. He borrows freely, from classical myth to the ornament of playing cards, and turns what he borrows into fields of pattern that hold the eye a long time.

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