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Printed as a physical fine-art giclée on Hahnemühle German Etching 310gsm using archival pigment inks. The tactile surface is chosen to hold fine linework and muted colour.
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An instrument for measuring the heavens, housed within a vast glasshouse.
Why we chose it
We chose this for its graphic strength: arches, stairs, walls, or towers carry the composition before the details begin to unfold. It is historical in subject but easy to live with.
About the work
Catalogue Entry The Orrery Conservatory was constructed around a brass mechanism of such unusual scale that the surrounding academy appears secondary to it. The instrument occupies the central court, passing through several galleries and continuing into the upper dome, where its outermost rings cannot be inspected from the floor. Contemporary records describe the mechanism as remaining in continuous motion, although no surviving account identifies a power source or maintenance schedule. Observers have also noted that its arrangement does not correspond precisely to any recognised model of the heavens. Registrar's Notes Routine inspection of the central mechanism has never been authorised. Print Specification Museum-quality giclée print produced with archival pigment inks on Hahnemühle German Etching 310gsm.
A3 (29.7 × 42 cm / 11.7 × 16.5 in). Made for close looking, it works equally well as a singular statement or the anchor of a collected wall. This is an original Museum of Imagined Worlds plate, created for our imagined archive of images that sit between record and invention.
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