Orí Ikú

Medium

Giclée on paper

Year

2026

Orí Ikú, meaning Death’s Head, seats a female figure on a low stool in a posture of coronation, spine curved slightly backward, chest lifted, chin raised, both arms extending outward and downward with open palms in the posture of someone receiving a crown. She wears layered violet and gold Yoruba lace. Her skull paint is in brilliant gold, the skull rendered not as horror but as a gilded crown on the charcoal face. Above her upturned face, hovering three inches from her head, a plain iron crown floats in the violet air. This striking mixed media African painting is Giclée printed on museum quality 310gsm Textured Fine Art Cotton Rag, issued as a limited edition of only 20 prints worldwide. A visually arresting piece of fine art that positions death not as an end but as the ultimate and inevitable coronation.