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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.
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…

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