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Correspondence 6, Channel, and Correspondence 8, St Rita of the Final Hour

By  Jenny Mellings 2013 - 2014

JMellings

This is related to the vision one might have of a landscape across which thoughts and electronic communication might travel. I this case, it is based upon a vague, remembered view of Calais, major port beyond the Channel. The regularly placed, star-formed icons across it's surface represent a static view of normally animated sparkles derived from a gmail emoticon frequently used. Materials: oil and graphite pencil on coated aluminium. These also form the final layer of another work related in content, size, and media (also represented here). It is an expanded sample rendered from an image of St Rita De Cascia. Materials: oil and pearl lustre on coated aluminium.
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Ancient Site Thistle

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…

Correspondence 10 (Apu)

Yarrow Glove

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