HEGIRA 1

By Jenny Mellings 2016

Dimensions
120 x 105 x 4

This drawing is part of a current series called 'Correspondences' and as such, the migrating birds are essentially appropriated from a friends photograph and multiplied to surround the globe.

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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…