Pneuma: The Mechanical Egg: seven etchings by ROBERT POWELL

Overview

These pieces draw on themes connected to automata, mechanisation and artificial intelligence. They look at identity, agency, and they wonder what it might be to be human.

Works

Robert Powell
The Brazen Head (or the Sleep of Bacon)
etching and watercolour
30cm x 30cm
(54cm x 54cm framed)

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The Mechanical Egg (or The Wonderful Clockwork Palace of the Emperor Hugo, in whichthe Revolutions of the Stars and those of the Eart are joined in Blissful Sympathy)
etching and watercolour
30cm x 30cm

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The Alabaster Chamber (or The Tomb of Hector, resplendent in moving, clanking, pneumatic creatures. The Necrotic Workshop where dead matter is made to live, where ivory, leather, ebony and gems coalese to form the Fair Galatea or Coppelia, whose breath is
etching and watercolour
30cm x 30cm

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The Organ Recital (or Dissecting the Doll)
etching and watercolour
30cm x 30cm

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At Dusk we use the Serinette to teach the Birds to Sing (or The Twilight Chorus in the Mechanical Menagerie, th eAutomatic Aviary, the Clockwork zoo)
etching and watercolour
30cm x 30cm

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Nature Artifex (or The Homunculus Factory)
etching and watercolour
9cm x 30cm
(32cm x 54cm framed)

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The Auto-peripatic School (or Classes of Movement)
etching and watercolour
9cm x 30cm

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