Closing the Distance (Limited edition print)
Closing the Distance (Limited edition print)
Artwork size: 65 x 82.8cm (25.5 x 32 inch), signed and editioned by the artist
This limited edition print features a text drawing about the distance and isolation we have all experienced during the 2020 pandemic. It is hopeful towards getting back to normality, and it is also about anti-racism and equality. I hope to inspire the idea of kinship, that those who appear different from you are not so different at all.
The print is an edition of 50, printed on Hahnemuhle museum quality paper with archival pigment inks.
The original design is drawn with ink pen, and every mark is an alphabet character. Nicola's drawings with text seek to show the complexity and richness of multilayered stories that exist within all people.
The ouroboros shape suggests an eternal cycle which hints at life, death and rebirth. It also speaks of metamorphosis and change, interconnection and balance, and the continual reconceptualising of the universe and the world around us. (More info below)
Original drawing is a text artwork by Nicola Anthony, limited edition prints are in a small edition of 50 prints created on museum quality paper using pigment inks. To include Gift Wrapping Add On click here
Collector’s info:
Artwork size: 65 x 82.8cm (25.5 x 32 inch)
Sheet size: 73 x 90.8cm (additional 4cm each side of excess paper for framing)
Hahnemuhle Photorag paper
Hand signed and editioned by the artist
Limited edition of 50 prints
More info and video below
Also available in a special black and white edition.
“Since early 2020 I was locked out of my art studio but I started to do little sketches on paper, which can be done anywhere. I got quite obsessed with my own hands - one of my only live models. In hindsight I think there is also the influence of my personal focus on washing hands, obsessively being aware of any finger which has touched an outside surface, being conscious that I cannot touch anyone else. Also during this time many inequalities have been shown up by the pandemic, including the higher risks for disadvantaged communities, minority communities, and foreign workers both in Singapore and around the world. I wanted to create an artwork which portrayed balance and equality, openness and inclusivity. Then the murder of George Floyd shocked the world on top of this turmoil of events and emotions we have been living through. Much of my work is about holding space for people who we may perceive as different to ourselves, finding commonalities, understanding and empathy. I decided to make the hands in opposite colours, to inspire the idea of kinship, that those who appear different from us are not so different at all.”