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CAS/A/0003 - "Serpent's Egg"



 

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1974
Colin Emmett and Alan Kitching
Photographic paper
Artists
12th of 100 Laminated
One of the seminal computer artworks
Image of snake with its tail in its mouth, having multi-coloured scales composed of letters of all the months of the year, and coiled like a spiral within an elliptical rim suggestive of an egg. At the centre of the spiral is a sun motif beaming what appears to be light onto the snake and to stars interspersed in the deep blue void of the elliptical body -zodiacal symbollism of the overarching influence of the sun on the solar cycle and constellation.

Width
620 mm Height 750 mm

 


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