Ovals of the Waves 2, Calligraphy & Glass Art by Denis Brown, 2006, 38x50x5cm
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Collection: The National Museum of Ireland
6 layers of engraved glass over a watercolor paper background bearing a one-off original print. A central drawing in Celtic style shows an otter chasing a fish, (a pencil sketch of this design is shown behind this type). Parts of the glass were acid etched to frost the surface. Many droplets of epoxy resin are attached to the layers of glass to give a 3-D bubbly sparkle, and some of these have been gilt with gold leaf.
The composition is built up of overlapping layers of hand-engraved text, from a poem by Catherine Byron*, which form a 3-D mass of text-ure.
*'Liadain to Curithir' by Catherine Byron, from her book The Fat-Hen Field Hospital, Loxwood Stoneleigh, 1993.
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