Isisaurus — рід титанозаврових динозаврів з пізньокрейдової формації Ламета в Індії та формації Паб в Пакистані. Рід містить один вид, Isisaurus colberti.
Happy to share the final portrait of the batch I painted for the Numenera RPG!
Sesson is the High Priest of the village. He sees himself as a reflection of his patron deity, caring and kind, and thus a figure of responsibility. In addition to helping those in need, Sesson's role includes observing holidays and religious rituals in the temple.
Kargil Vijay Diwas is celebrated every 26 July in India, to observe India's victory over Pakistan in the Kargil War for ousting Pakistani Forces from their occupied positions on the mountain tops of Northern Kargil District in Ladakh in 1999 .
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The Persistence of Memory
Digital transfers of vintage photographs (1976) on doilies (1986) installed on a black chadar (veil) belonging to the artist’s late mother. 2022
Borrowing from Salvador Dali’s surrealist ideas around space, time and memory, Mariam Magsi creates a series of digital photo transfers onto doilies. Doilies are ornamental mats, usually in varying shades of white, made of lace, fabric or paper with a lace pattern, typically placed on a plate under cakes or other sweet foods and savoury pastries. The word doily comes from Doiley, the last name of a reputable and well-known Londoner, who dealt with dry food trades in the 17th century. The texture of the doilies bleeds into the image, merging with the texture of the vintage, analogue photographs, printed in Lahore, Pakistan back in 1976. The photograph portrays a wedding banquet in Punjab featuring the maternal family of the artist. The bride and groom are seated, partaking in rituals and customs conducive to marriage. A young child proceeds to present a glass of milk to the groom first.
The generation featured inherited a brand new country and identity, unprocessed and unimaginably violent trauma, fuelled by nationalism, along with pressures to preserve culture, prevent erasure, and always, at all costs, perform hospitality, so as to avoid being perceived as a failed citizen. This photograph was made 29 years after Pakistan was formed, in a violent partition with India, puppeteered by the British in collaboration with the Indian subcontinent’s political elite. Only 6 years before this banquet was recorded, Bangladesh declared its independence from Pakistan in 1971. A tear in the photograph transfers onto the doily, echoing gaps in history. The doily is taken out of its original function and serves as a spherical light-box illuminating the otherwise fading black and white photograph. Due to the dark nature of the chadar (veil) upon which the work lies, it is not clear if the doily is on the ground, installed on the wall, or presented on a table.
The Persistence of Memory was commissioned by the Dawat Yan Banquet with support from the AGOxRBC Artists in Residence Program, 2022.