Michael John Whelan
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Echoes of evaporation
and submergence

1991
And they did live by watchfires
Nocturne
Untitled
Darkness had no need
These last breaths
The time of cruel wonders
was not yet over

In the black dark for good
Carapace
That we were to wait
Like force and matter
Lupus
20 Vertices, 30 Edges
and 160 Diagonals

Dune
Transit of Venus
Over the echoing gateway
Stars/Star
Shadowplay
Archway (diptych)
Like force and matter
2015
2 x chromogenic prints on aluminium, pencil on wall
100 x 150cm
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Two photographs of a concrete structure are hung apart from each other. Composition and placement allows the curvature of the structure to create two sections of a circle. The remainder of the circle is completed by hand with pencil directly on the wall. The transient and impermanence of the pencil line is placed in contrast to the permanence of this architectural construction, who's massive scale is evident only from the size of a seagull present in one of the photos.