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Original artwork description:
A feminine face emerges in delicate black lines on an old official document, found in Portugal and dating back to 1936. This paper, once a simple administrative register, becomes here a living background, charged with memory and nostalgia.
The lines of the face do not erase the text—they coexist with it. The old words follow the contours of the drawing, as if completing its identity. The hair flows across the handwritten lines, while the silent gaze seems to read, or perhaps remember.
This piece is a meeting between personal memory and archive, a fusion of drawing and writing, where the past becomes substance. The yellowed paper becomes the stage for a new identity, born of the layered traces of time and forgetfulness.
Materials used:
old official document, found in Portugal and dating back to 1936
Tags:
##mixedmedia ##figurativeart ##femaleportrait ##nostalgicartpiece ##portraitonpaper ##oldpaper #vintagepaper ##emotiveart ##blackinkdrawing ##foundpaperartThe text of the face (2025) Ink drawing
by jan noah
18 Artist Reviews
£283.33
- Ink drawing on Paper
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 22 x 34 x 0.1cm (unframed) / 22 x 34cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
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Original artwork description
A feminine face emerges in delicate black lines on an old official document, found in Portugal and dating back to 1936. This paper, once a simple administrative register, becomes here a living background, charged with memory and nostalgia.
The lines of the face do not erase the text—they coexist with it. The old words follow the contours of the drawing, as if completing its identity. The hair flows across the handwritten lines, while the silent gaze seems to read, or perhaps remember.
This piece is a meeting between personal memory and archive, a fusion of drawing and writing, where the past becomes substance. The yellowed paper becomes the stage for a new identity, born of the layered traces of time and forgetfulness.
Materials used:
old official document, found in Portugal and dating back to 1936
Tags:
##mixedmedia ##figurativeart ##femaleportrait ##nostalgicartpiece ##portraitonpaper ##oldpaper #vintagepaper ##emotiveart ##blackinkdrawing ##foundpaperart
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