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Cluster of Oak Leaves

Cluster of Oak Leaves in Hayfield Meadow
“Cluster of Oak Leaves in Hayfield Meadow – third version” [26th July 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, drawing with H, HB, 4B, 8B and charcoal stick, signed in black ink pen with blue chromatic halo effect on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 3261 x 2812 pixels.

Sometimes I sit underneath this young Oak tree for shade from the midsummer sun. Third version took me approximately one and a half hours to produce.

I am very happy with this third version. First version, unsigned, second draft, is a Digital Artwork. In terms of quality I would be glad to include this as a Limited Edition print.

A new poem inspired from these Cluster Oak Leaf artworks:

“Bind yourself to the Twig,
Breathe your roots to the Fig,
Cluster Leaves to the Vine,
Sing your Way, sublime.

Dance your life to Peace,
Let beration cease,
Liberate wheated sheaf,
Happily half to Meet.

Tune your heart,
To Waterfalls beat,
Find the Love you seek,
Whence good you shall keep.”

– by Matt The Unfathomable Artist – Copyright © 26th July 2022.

“Cluster of Oak Leaves in Hayfield Meadow – first version – Digital Artwork Edition only” [20th July 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital Artwork image 3154 x 2745 pixels.

I really like “Cluster of Oak Leaves in Hayfield Meadow – first version – Digital Artwork Edition only” [20th July 2022] and would happily make limited print editions. Personally I believe, should I ever do so, official authenticated Print Editions of First Version will become as valuable as the canvas Third Version..

.. by reason that my First Version is irreparably damaged. The first and second versions are both canvas, unsigned partly-incomplete works. However, I would personally sign the First Version Limited Print Editions.

The second version is a quick study only, I was not happy with its proportion:

“Cluster of Oak Leaves – unfinished, second study” [25th July 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital image 3204 x 2730 pixels.

FInally, here is the original photograph for this series of artworks/studies:

“Cluster of Oak Leaves in Hayfield Meadow – Original Photograph” [1940hrs, 4th July 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

For photographers viewing this image – F1.9 1/313s 3.60mm ISO 40 from my smartphone camera. Nice depth of field, with wonderful macro detail.

Interestingly, I made the ‘lower stalk’ part of the composition for the third version (below the leaves, mid-lowest centre in the photographic image). In fact, the two foremost lowest leaves you see are actually at the very end of its branch. The branch itself is at the mid-upper-centre of the image, vertically represented.

To my knowledge this is a young Quercas Robur [English Oak], approximately some twelve to fifteen feet tall. Its tree trunk is not even to that of a mature elephant, I should say. Quite in contrast to its mighty King James VI & I Oak of 1612 in nearby field proximity, link to photographs of the latter, larger Oak here Conservation – Local Nature Reserve.

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Untitled Photograph #1

“Untitled Photograph #1“ [30th October 2021] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, artistically edited photograph in black & white, digital image 5373 x 6248 pixels.

I took this photograph at 1850hrs on 30th October 2021, whilst Jupiter and Saturn watched from afar, above the night skyline. A human-like shadow appears to cast a glow of itself, below the urban lights.

Here are photographs of the celestial sights to the South South East, South that evening:

1848hrs:

Photograph taken at 1848hrs of the bright celestial body by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

Photographed by me nearer to the urban lights whilst I stood upon the smooth concrete, at a junction. All light objects below the two central celestial bodies (shown in the image just above centre, centre-right) are manmade.

One celestial body is hardly discernible, without zooming for a close-up.

1851hrs:

This was photographed at 1851hrs, whilst I stood upon smooth concrete, further away from the urban lights pictured. Yet, standing near to where my original photograph was taken one minute earlier, entitled “Untitled Photograph #1”, urban lights without colour.

Here is a close-up of 1851hrs, shown immediately above:

To the imagination, this could resemble an alien face.

I hope you enjoy my photographic artworks.

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Conservation – Local Nature Reserve

‘Ancient Oak circa 1612 – Height & Breadth’  – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Ancient Oak circa 1612 – Sun Rays’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Ancient Oak circa 1612 – Canopy’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Ancient Oak circa 1612 – Trunk’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Local Nature Reserve – Third Field Views #1’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Local Nature Reserve – Third Field Views #2’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Local Nature Reserve – Third Field Views #3’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Local Nature Reserve – Third Field Views #4’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Local Nature Reserve – Third Field Views #5’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Local Nature Reserve – Oak Trunk View #1’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Local Nature Reserve – Oak Trunk View #2’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

Dear Readers I’m hoping your thoughts find beautiful views through my series of Local Nature Reserve images artistically arranged for your nature loving enjoyment.

Very best, Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

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Oak Branch Astronomy

‘Kinin Valley’ [copyright 7th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital photography.

Imagine NASA has just this second received new images from their distantly galactic travelling satellite probe. Kinin Valley, shown above, could have been photographed 100,000 miles from space. Detailing its epic landscape of cavernous valleys and Mars like red rock formations.


‘Nebulaic Cyclones with Wormhole Striations’ [copyright 7th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital photography.

As the deep space probe passes over this alien lunar surface we see a huge meteor has struck an immensely dry area to our left in the above image, Nebulaic Cyclones with Wormhole Striations. Upper right we can make out what appears to be storm scars of ancient water erosion.

At the lower mid section of the image we observe heavy sloping, a natural quarry descending downwards towards us. An alien species has perhaps eaten into the landscape in worm-like striations, burrowing strange etches into this now lifeless moon.


‘The Helix Whorls’ [copyright 7th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital photography.

NASA gathers together a team of specialist scientists to categorically figure out ‘The Helix Whorls’ phenomenon.

A time traveller probably visited last Wednesday, one million three hundred thousand years ago, at a time when sturdy shell covered creatures roamed this moon’s macro-phasic atmosphere.


‘Robur Canyon’ [copyright 7th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital photography.

Mythical legends have spoken of monsters lurking in structures exactly as described in Robur Canyon. Dark matter without discernible mass, form or measurable depth causes disenchanted quietness upon anyone approaching its entrance ways – shown above, to the right and lower right, at two distinctive places.


‘Inescapable Monster Moon’ [copyright 7th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital photography.

Similar in idea to our own Man in the Moon, this image conjures a vivid resemblance with the terrestrial deep sea Fangtooth, Anoplogaster cornuta. Actually the pit to the lower left could be 20,000 feet deep!

Imagination is Art.

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Sonia Mehra Chawla presents ‘Entanglements of Time and Tide’

‘Entanglements of Time & Tide [No.1]’ by Sonia Merha Chawla.

North Sea reflections reveal the art of science in new exhibition by internationally renowned Indian artist Sonia Mehra Chawla

Living artworks, historical scientific material, video, and new commissions in print follow intensive residencies in Scotland and mark artist’s debut solo exhibition in the United Kingdom.

The worlds of art, science and technology are set to collide at Edinburgh Printmakers this April.

Celebrated Indian artist and researcher Sonia Mehra Chawla presents Entanglements of Time and Tide, a new exhibition exploring entanglements of ecology industry, culture, politics and
aesthetics.

‘Entanglements of Time & Tide [No.5]’ by Sonia Merha Chawla.

Mehra Chawla’s artistic practice explores notions of selfhood, nature, ecology, sustainability and
conservation. For Entanglements of Time and Tide she spent two years on three intensive residencies at the Marine Scotland Laboratory in Aberdeen, the ASCUS Laboratory at Summerhall and Edinburgh Printmakers.

The result is an all encompassing exhibition featuring new commissions in print, video, living artworks of micro-biological organisms and representations of historical scientific material.

Part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival and part of Year of Coasts and Waters 2020 programme, Entanglements of Time and Tide explores how we can make our future more liveable.

Reflecting on the human impact on our environment and in particular effects on microorganisms by capital-intensive heavy industry and anthropogenic activities, the exhibition is in two parts.

‘Entanglements of Time & Tide [No.6]’ by Sonia Merha Chawla.

Part I looks at the mysterious and enigmatic life of planktons providing several entry points to understanding larger global issues associated with the world’s oceans. Part II explores the impact of technological obsolescence, the drive to consumption and the impacts of the waste created by these technofossils.

Speaking ahead of the exhibition opening Sonia Mehra Chawla said:

“Polluted, overfished, abused and threatened by extractive forces, the largest living space on Earth is rapidly declining. Human-induced environmental change threatens multi-species endurance, livability and continuity. We are all interconnected by shared ecologies and entanglements with our other than human kin makes life probable. Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together in collaboration?

‘Entanglements of Time & Tide [No.4]’ by Sonia Merha Chawla.

We live in a time of many urgencies and I feel we require cross disciplinary curiosity of what constitutes life on this planet and what our place is in this universe. This exhibition has been created to act as a starting point for these conversations between artists and scientists, those in industry and the wider community.”

Running parallel to Entanglements of Time and Tide in Gallery 2 is Speculative Bubbles: Jess Ramm, a new show from Glasgow based printmaker Jessica Ramm.

With the aid of a children’s chemistry set and a selection of household chemicals, Ramm presents a series of prints, that evidence everyday magic, produced on a residency at Edinburgh Printmakers in 2019.

Ramm’s chemical and physical experiments propose alternative ways of navigating humanity’s symbiotic relationship with the material environment while paying particular attention to the extravagance of human aspiration.

Listings Information

Entanglements of Time & Tide: Sonia Mehra Chawla

Edinburgh Printmakers, Gallery 1, Castle Mills, 1 Dundee Street, ​Edinburgh EH3 9FP
+44 (0) 131 557 2479

Tuesday – Sunday 10am – 5pm

04 April to 05 July 2020 (Science festival 4th – 19th April)

http://www.edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/

Speculative Bubbles: Jess Ramm
Gallery 2, Castle Mills
Tuesday – Sunday 10am – 5pm
04 April to 11 July 2020 (Science festival 4th – 19th April)
http://www.edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/

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Sonia Merha Chawla

Sonia Mehra Chawla is an artist based in New Delhi, India. She received her BFA in 2001 and MFA in 2004–2005 from Delhi University’s College of Art, New Delhi. Chawla has an interdisciplinary practice as an artist, photographer and researcher. Her artistic practice explores notions of selfhood, nature, ecology, sustainability, and conservation.

Mehra Chawla’s practice is process oriented and research based, with a focus on specific locations and micro histories. Through her artistic projects, she examines how local places contribute to global changes, what drives those changes, how these contributions change over time, how and where scale matters, what are the interactions between macro-structures and micro-agencies, and how efforts at mitigation and adaptation can be locally initiated and adopted.

Through her practice, Mehra Chawla explores, dissects, re-examines and re-envisions spaces that exist at the intersections of art and science, social and natural realms, self and the other, focusing on the important dimensions of human engagement with and within nature, ranging from the built-environment to the ‘wilderness’, and human and non-human narratives and interrelations in the Anthropocene. The artist lives and works in New Delhi, India.

www.soniamehrachawla.in

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