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Transtemporal Edifice 1

By Jenny Mellings 2024

Dimensions
62 X 100 cm

Architectural ‘edifices’ of random architectural elements making a composite whole have formed a strong thread in my work since the beginning and now that I'm making work related to a particular archaeological site, this is being done in the context of imagining multiple spaces and mores of living that have taken place in the past and will continue to evolve in the future. 

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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…

Correspondence 10 (Apu)

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