The Unravelling of a Domed Roof (Exclusive small-batch limited edition print)
The Unravelling of a Domed Roof (Exclusive small-batch limited edition print)
This is an exclusive small batch limited edition print by Nicola Anthony, Signed
A drawing turned into an edition, showing an abstraction of looking up at a domed roof in Yangon & imagining all the stars & galaxies visible beyond, should it start to unravel.
The drawing came out of an artistic intervention & residency at the Secretariat Building in Yangon, Myanmar in 2017. The drawing takes structural inspiration from the many beautiful architectural gems in Myanmar, which have fallen into dilapidation. In the years since there has been civil war in Myanmar so all sales of this print have a 10% donation going to HTBD charity which helps in education, health and livelihoods in the region.
The image is also inspired by star constellation maps, biological structures, and the building blocks which make up all things in the universe. There is a fine balance of beauty and decay, power and unravelling.
Charity Info: Helping the Burmese Delta (HTBD), registered UK charity 1124774, is a small, personal and efficient charity working in Myanmar. We work collaboratively using an integrated model focusing on education, health and livelihoods to help improve villagers’ quality of life in the Irrawaddy Delta Region.
COLLECTORS INFO:
Artist: Nicola Anthony
Title: The Unravelling of a Domed Roof
Medium: Digital Fine Art Print on German etching paper (Hahnemuhle archival paper)
Image size: 65 x 44 cm
Sheet size: 74 x 54 cm
Framed size: unframed
Editions: 5
Year: 2017
This drawing was made in response to the crumbling decay of heritage buildings in Myanmar. The artist began to explore the chinks, leaks and erosions. Buildings and spaces are sometimes forcibly cut into or severed; sometimes organically splintering under pressure; at other times worn through by wear, love, use or misuse. This body of artwork explores place memory, social memory, and the fragments which can tell us so much about unspoken history.
“In Kyauktada, Yangon, history’s seam is not neatly sewn. Inside these gaps, older men sit by coffee shops as they have done for years, looking at scenes of wireless life but remembering another era, while holy places continue with their patient call to prayer; the work of devotion carries on, unbroken. Much of the past is coded, unknowable. We interpret the world through our own experience, but it is ultimately a fractal, connecting infinite complexities together.”
The Unravelling of a Domed Roof also features in a limited edition book by Nicola Anthony and Marc Nair, entitled Intersection, published by Knuckles and Notch in 2017.