This limited edition Canvas Print, designed by Elizabeth Neilson, comes with a numbered and signed certificate of authenticity. Ready to hang, this image is printed onto a 450gsm white finish, 100% cotton canvas and stretched over 1.5” deep wood stretcher bars (3/4” for XS). Each print comes with wall hanging hardware.
This limited edition Canvas Print, designed by Elizabeth Neilson, comes with a numbered and signed certificate of authenticity. New “KIT” Canvas: Inkjet printing onto highest quality poly-cotton canvas. Archival light-fade resistant inks. Mirror edge over Aluminum stretcher bars. Includes a patented DIY stretching system and hardware to mount. Deliver in kit form.
MARENA: THE DEATH OF DEATH (part 1 of a series on Russian Cosmism) ||| culture | Traditional spring rituals like Maslenitsa see Marena, a clawed, fanged Slavic pagan goddess of death and winter, symbolically killed to make way for warm weather and a bountiful growing season. The community creates an effigy of Marena from rags, wraps her in white cloth and ribbons, and drowns her in a river or stream. ||| philosophy | One of the core concepts in Cosmist thought is "the death of death"-- resurrection of every human who has died, and immortality for every human now living. ||| art | Here, Marena faces her own death; this time she is not thrown, but instead tearfully walks into the stream of her own accord, knowing she has been defeated by humankind at last.
