"No Context" #1
by Nicole Brandt
Mixed Media on Paper
9x12” (~23x30.5 cm)
2021
A collage of aged papers, paint, and ephemera reminiscent of the ancient world, featuring a photo clipped from a museum guide of a colossal bull head from Persepolis. This gigantic bull’s head is made of black stone and weighs a whopping ten tons! This artifact dates to the Achaemenid period (c. 486-424 BC), and it can be seen today in the Persian Gallery at the Oriental Institute in Chicago. The museum collection number is A24065.
This piece of work is part of my “No Context” Collage Series
This is a series of haphazard collages that I have made while attending conferences and lectures that were relegated to the online world due to Covid. I kept the color palettes minimal and the subject matter undefined to make them easier to make without drawing too much focus away from the presentations I was listening to. These are truly without context, combining texts written in Sumerian, Akkadian, Hebrew, Arabic, Egyptian, and Greek and potentially other languages, and images of artifacts from Mesopotamia, Persia, the Levant and Egypt without any respect to time or culture. I will continue to add to this series as time goes on as long as I can find more museum guides to clip images from.
by Nicole Brandt
Mixed Media on Paper
9x12” (~23x30.5 cm)
2021
A collage of aged papers, paint, and ephemera reminiscent of the ancient world, featuring a photo clipped from a museum guide of a colossal bull head from Persepolis. This gigantic bull’s head is made of black stone and weighs a whopping ten tons! This artifact dates to the Achaemenid period (c. 486-424 BC), and it can be seen today in the Persian Gallery at the Oriental Institute in Chicago. The museum collection number is A24065.
This piece of work is part of my “No Context” Collage Series
This is a series of haphazard collages that I have made while attending conferences and lectures that were relegated to the online world due to Covid. I kept the color palettes minimal and the subject matter undefined to make them easier to make without drawing too much focus away from the presentations I was listening to. These are truly without context, combining texts written in Sumerian, Akkadian, Hebrew, Arabic, Egyptian, and Greek and potentially other languages, and images of artifacts from Mesopotamia, Persia, the Levant and Egypt without any respect to time or culture. I will continue to add to this series as time goes on as long as I can find more museum guides to clip images from.
by Nicole Brandt
Mixed Media on Paper
9x12” (~23x30.5 cm)
2021
A collage of aged papers, paint, and ephemera reminiscent of the ancient world, featuring a photo clipped from a museum guide of a colossal bull head from Persepolis. This gigantic bull’s head is made of black stone and weighs a whopping ten tons! This artifact dates to the Achaemenid period (c. 486-424 BC), and it can be seen today in the Persian Gallery at the Oriental Institute in Chicago. The museum collection number is A24065.
This piece of work is part of my “No Context” Collage Series
This is a series of haphazard collages that I have made while attending conferences and lectures that were relegated to the online world due to Covid. I kept the color palettes minimal and the subject matter undefined to make them easier to make without drawing too much focus away from the presentations I was listening to. These are truly without context, combining texts written in Sumerian, Akkadian, Hebrew, Arabic, Egyptian, and Greek and potentially other languages, and images of artifacts from Mesopotamia, Persia, the Levant and Egypt without any respect to time or culture. I will continue to add to this series as time goes on as long as I can find more museum guides to clip images from.