DOMINIC CHAMBERS
Leave Room for the Wind, 2024
20 x 27 inches
Archival pigment print
Limited edition of 15
Hand-embellished, signed and numbered by the artist
$2,000
Limited edition of 25 with 5AP + 1PP
Signed and numbered by the artist
$550
As in many of the artist's prior works, Leave Room for the Wind takes literature as its inspiration—particularly, Mary Oliver's book-length poem The Leaf And The Cloud (2000), in which the author writes, "I will leave room for the wind combing the grass, / for the feather falling out of the grouse's fan-tail, / and fluttering down, like a song." Resplendent with saturated washes of blues and greens, the work centers on two children who fly translucent kites in the open sky. Roaming through a verdant landscape absent of any architectural markers, the primary characters appear immersed in their purely recreational act, unbound by neither time nor expectations.
In creating this scene, Chambers resists the emphasis that society places on productivity, instead making a case for the necessity of finding enjoyment in stillness. hand drawn embellishments with color pencil and charcoal. Fifteen prints in the edition have been hand embellished by the artist using colored pencil and charcoal to add additional detail to each work.
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