Ebute

Medium

Giclée on paper

Year

2026

Ebute, meaning The Landing, places a male figure at the edge of the Lagos lagoon at golden hour, facing away from the camera and looking out across the teal water, one hand raised to shade his eyes against the last light. His deep teal agbada merges with the water’s colour, leaving his charcoal silhouette and the luminous horizon as the composition’s two anchors. In the lagoon below him, his reflection shows not his current self but the same man in older dress, a precolonial Lagos merchant looking upward from the water toward him, as if the lagoon holds a different century just below its surface. This evocative mixed media fine art print is Giclée printed on museum quality 310gsm Textured Fine Art Cotton Rag and limited to just 20 prints in the world. A deeply layered Nigerian painting about Lagos, time, and the water that holds every version of the city simultaneously. Available at Naija Art Store.