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  • Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Joan Ross, View of the future, 2021
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Joan Ross, View of the future, 2021

    Joan Ross

    View of the future, 2021
    hand-coloured pigment print on rag paper
    73 x 106 cm / 81 x 114 cm (framed)
    edition of 8 + 2 AP
    POA

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    The seed for the idea of doing headless birds actually originated in my gallerist's home where I was staying when I came down for a show. There was a print...
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    The seed for the idea of doing headless birds actually originated in my gallerist's home where I was staying when I came down for a show.

    There was a print of a bird in the hallway and the sun reflected on the glass and for a minute and it looked like it didn’t have a head and I thought wow that looks weird, I like that.

    The headlessness suggest what the future could be without birds and the headlessness is a metaphor for this, it also about greed collecting and ownership.
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