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cinema night in the studio

triptych. 183cm x 365cm
chalk and gouache on carbon pigment-stained muslin stretched over 3 panels.

'Alignments was conceived after a visit to Stonehenge, inspired by the coexistence of vast chalk plateaus, archeological layouts/sites/paths, a motorway and the Army activity on Salisbury Plain. The Wiltshire landscape has inspired Emma to draw for the first time using chalk. Through a network of white lines McNally stresses the open perspective of the “plainscape”, the past and present means of communications and multiple connections that are taking place around the site. The white tracking on the shadowy background also refers to the celestial observatory function of Stonehenge and to the primitive funerary monument, where rituals were accomplished through music and rhythm.
Emma McNally intertwines and articulates these sources of data to embrace a contemporary vision of the Wiltshire landscape.' (from text for 'Atoms Insects Mountains Stars' Young Gallery, Salisbury Feb 11 - March 24
www.trinitycontemporary.com )

a couple of 'at work' images (since this is the last drawing I'll do in this studio)