Cover me

Medium: Mixed Media Painting on cardboard Size:- 20by24 inches Year:- 2026 Price:-$ 500 Without frame Cover Me is a mixed-media painting that explores love, marriage, vulnerability, and the different intentions people may bring into romantic relationships. The work portrays a woman in her late thirties, naked and vulnerable, calling for someone to “cover me.” She represents a woman who has not yet married and is searching for a man who will genuinely love her—not someone who wants to take advantage of her vulnerability. The different hands surrounding the woman represent different kinds of men and the intentions they may bring into relationships. The hand holding a green Yoruba cap filled with cowries represents a man whose approach to love is strongly connected to wealth and material possessions. Cowries historically served as a form of currency in Yoruba society and therefore symbolize money and wealth in this work. The hand suggests a man who presents wealth as a way of attracting a woman, with the possibility that his intention i