Untitled (Noura11)

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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. RECURRING DEVICE The body opening into architecture links this work to Plestia and to the file named last ashes, both of which show a torso giving way to a built landscape. This is a sustained device across the collection rather than a one-off. Note that this work is signed at the LOWER LEFT, while Plestia and last ashes are signed lower right. So the device crosses the signature-placement division recorded on those records. That weakens any simple reading of the two groups as two different hands, and is worth noting alongside the open attribution flag on Plestia. SUBJECT NOTE The ruined industrial buildings and cratered ground are rendered specifically rather than generically. Whether they depict an identifiable place should be recorded from the artist and not inferred. The white bird emblem at the chest may also be significant and should be asked about rather than described as decorative. MATERIAL ASSESSMENT Unresolved. Automated inspection suggested a digital composite combining drawing with photographic or three-dimensional elements. Recorded as unconfirmed. If the work does incorporate photographic source material, that would be worth knowing for both preservation and rights purposes. SELECTIVE COLOUR The two red poppies are the only colour in an otherwise greyscale image. Deliberate, and must be preserved in reproduction. SIGNATURE Present lower left in white cursive. Not transcribed. Automated reading returned Neima Al Qassem, which is wrong. The typeset name on the Heaven series title plate reads Noura Al Qasasia. SOURCE FILE Noura11.JPG, 3210 x 4160 px, aspect ratio only. Physical dimensions unknown.

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