A Mona in time
It is common to look past the Mona Lisa as you’ve seen it more than any Artwork in history. As the celebrated measuring stick by which other Art is weighed, the icon is often merely glanced at through the role of comparative ruler.
Similarly, We often experience the present moment as common. A less significant time ahead of an idealized moment of richer connection and less struggle. We put attention towards an imagined “then”, stealing our awareness and appreciation of the rich gift of “now”.
Skeletons entering, rising, descending, and ultimately exiting existence. Are they lifetimes, egos, or breathes? Might they have the opportunity to experience the full embodiment of awareness again?
Making of A Mona in Time
An ever-deepen intention and openness is the mindset I strive to hold while creating. My hope is that the results of that focus give you new depths to explore in the moments you spend with my Art.
With condensed efforts and extended pauses in the creation process of this work, A Mona in Time evolved naturally over the course of 2023. Reserving my drawing and observing time with with it to only when I was present enough to give it my fullest attention. This nurtured it’s evolution in a way which I could not have anticipated. The process allowed her and I to know each another well.
Research and meditation were big parts of the creation process. Diving into the research surrounding each of Da Vinci’s versions of the Mona Lisa to better understand what bring light to within mine. The pozzetto chair and column bases which exist as less defined in the original work were great excuses to explore Renaissance furniture making and milling. Thinking though not only outward appearance, but how they were crafted so that I might draw them as glass. This study was similar to the undertaking of her the anatomy below the glass surface.
30 second time-lapse of 50,000+ strokes hand-drawn in Procreate.
A few moments of iteration:
A Mona in Time is available as a giclee edition and as the original digital artwork.
18x24 Giclee prints
Archival pigment on 300gsm cotton rag paper printed by Static Medium. unframed.
Signed and numbered by Brian
Edition of 100
Please allow 2-3 weeks for shipping. Prints are shipped in Heavy Duty Yazoo Mills tubes. All sales final. No International shipping.
$175 + shipping
Original Digital Artwork
ERC-721 token on the ethereum blockchain, Arweave storage.
Minted on Brian’s ERC-721 contract
Edition of 1
Open to private offers
