The Journey Of Our Parallel Lives
This artwork is about the invisible stories contained within landscapes and our journeys through them. From walks all around the world the artist started keeping an abstract map, noting that every walk in the same place is different "in the particular path which seems to open up to the feet. At the same time, my courses run in parallel to each other, starting and ending together." These drawings represent movement, the invisible meanings of journeys, and mapping the body’s course through them. Feet never trace the same route twice - we all experience life differently even from the same path. Nicola Anthony's drawings are drawn by burning the surface of calligraphy paper - the medium being the scorch marks and perforations on the paper.
2019
incense-burned drawing on calligraphy paper with pigment ink, mounted in embroidery hoop
35.0 x 35.0 x 4.0 cm
890
© Nicola Anthony. Image courtesy of The Ingram Collection & Nicola Anthony
This work is part of The Ingram Collection of Modern British & Contemporary Art and was on loan to the Lightbox for the exhibition "Redressing the balance: Women Artists from The Ingram Collection" (11 August - 20 September 2020).
It was created in response to 'Walking Group', a sculpture by Kenneth Armitage in The Ingram Collection, upon special invitation from the Royal Society of Sculptors and The Ingram Collection.
This work is part of The Ingram Collection of Modern British & Contemporary Art and was on loan to the Lightbox for the exhibition "Redressing the balance: Women Artists from The Ingram Collection" (11 August - 20 September 2020).
It was created in response to 'Walking Group', a sculpture by Kenneth Armitage in The Ingram Collection, upon special invitation from the Royal Society of Sculptors and The Ingram Collection.
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