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Epilogue : The Garden of Earthly Delights 2020.

2/26/2020

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The Mid-Atlantic Ridge has become the focal point for the new work. Although this 'scar' is the result of powerful natural forces, I began to wonder about the 'scars' made by man through extraction and industry. Issues re greed and the destruction of natural resources is not a unique phenomenon and can be found throughout history.

Further research lead me to a medieval work - 'In the Garden of Earthly Delights'. Painted by Hieronymus Bosch (1490 -1510), it is thought to depict mans greed, and the transience of worldly pleasures. Consisting of three panels, the scene is set in the Garden of Eden. Initially created as altarpieces triptych paintings first appeared in early Christian art during the Middle Ages. Their primary function was to serve as an aid to devotion or prayer. The three panels are hinged together allowing the work to folded shut or displayed in an open format.
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Using this as my reference point, I have set about making a response for the 21st century. While it is not my intention to make a 'devotional' altarpiece, it strikes me the present concerns put forward by scientists re our continued destruction of earths resources is a subject worth thinking about. 
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The format chosen is the same as Bosch has used - a triptych. 
Preparing ​background ready for inks.
Book I 
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Book II 
Building layers of texture and ink
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    • The Ark >
      • Adrift
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    • Salts - LighthouseKeeping
    • The Sea
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    • Holuhraun 2014 -2015
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