Blue Moonscape

By Jenny Mellings 2018

This is part of a new series of works about other worlds and landscapes as yet beyond the reach of most humans, save for the glimpses we are shown via high technology. As new information about these places becomes available, this is one attempt to process it in relation to human life on Earth, all that most of us have ever known. This is based on a Moonscape, but also refers to the encampments of displaced humans on Earth today, and suggestions of elements of life through various 'windows'.

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Ancient Land with Ghost Rubble Road

This is another work from the ongoing 'Correspondences' series, exploring aspects of the digital world, particularly the internet. It's a larger painting than those I previously made using similar, almost 'Pointillist' or 'Divisionist' methods, and the subject matter is to do with a specific connection with a film. A frame from that film (The Apu Trilogy part 1 director: Satyajit Ray, cameraman: Subatra Mitra) forms the lower layer, and the speckled layer over the top partly obscures this, and…

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