Untitled (Heaven 3)
1999 - Present
Description
Five doves are caught in flight against a turbulent, cloud-heavy sky, their wings spread and bodies angled hard, scattered vertically through the composition rather than gathered into a flock.
The plumage is pale lavender and white with deeper purple-grey through the wings and bodies, and the feet register as small dark marks. The sky behind is grey and slate-blue, thick with cloud.
A diamond lattice, the pattern of chain-link fencing, is laid across the entire picture in dark lines. It sits in front of everything, cutting the birds and the sky into cells.
The fence is not behind the birds or beside them. It covers them, and it covers the viewer's position too, so the flight is only ever seen through it. Nothing in the picture is outside the mesh. No signature is visible.
Preservation Notes
PROVISIONAL. Assessment from visual inspection of a digital image only. No physical examination. Data gaps are expected on this collection and will be completed as information reaches the archive. SERIES Filename groups this with the Heaven files. NouraAlqasiaHeaven2.JPG is a title plate reading HEAVEN ABOVE THE SKY OF GAZA, very likely the series this belongs to. Worth confirming with the artist. RECURRING MOTIF The chain-link lattice overlay also appears in NouraAlqasiaHeaven8.JPG. Two occurrences within the same series is a deliberate device rather than incidental. Its meaning should be recorded from the artist rather than interpreted here. The overlay must be preserved in any reproduction. It is not a defect, a watermark, or a scanning artefact, and should not be removed, retouched, or cleaned up by anyone processing these files. MATERIAL ASSESSMENT Automated inspection suggested photography with digital manipulation and mixed media. Treat as unreliable; automated medium identification has been wrong repeatedly across this collection. Recorded as unconfirmed. NO SIGNATURE FOUND No signature was located in this image. This is unusual for the collection and may mean the file is a crop or detail rather than the full work, or that the signature falls outside the frame. Worth checking whether a complete version exists. SOURCE FILE NouraAlqasiaHeaven3.JPG, 3210 x 4160 px, aspect ratio only. Physical dimensions unknown.
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