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2022

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Studies, Come Home Again, 2022

This is a Studies. It is dated 2022. Its medium is graphite on paper. It is a part of the department.

“The word ‘dome’ shares a close root with the words for ‘danger’ and ‘home.’ I thought of that entwined history when I constructed a scale replica of the dome of London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral on the lawn outside Tate Modern. I filled the dome with observational drawings of 243 of the 15,000 plant, animal, and fungi species that call London home—the Londoners most at risk of extinction. The process of drawing, which took four intensive months, became a meditation.”

It is credited Courtesy of Es Devlin.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition An Atlas of Es Devlin.

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