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Thin Place

By Jenny Mellings 2026

Dimensions
55 X 75

I revisited an ancient site where I'd previously followed an archaeological survey. It was a December night and there was a full Moon hanging over the nocturnal landscape that illuminated the extent of the progress of ‘newbuild’ construction that was now taking place. In the hollow created by heavy machinery gouging out the earth for new foundations, it was easy to imagine what might have been there around 2,000 years ago.

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Ancient Site Spring Blooms

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)

Ancient Garden Vision on the Archeologists Container

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