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By  Jenny Mellings 2023

Dimensions
59 X 84 cm

One of an ongoing series of drawings being made in relation to an archaeological dig in South Somerset. I'm regularly documenting the progress of the dig through photography and also drawing and painting on site then using the images as springboards for more imaginative works. 

Forum detail 1714124772 Jenny Mellings
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)

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