🌺 (Heirloom Collection)

This animated work "🌺" makes use of a digital scan of an engraving by Elizabeth Blackwell (Scottish 1707 - 1758) titled "Red poppy" and published in 1751.

The scan can be found online in the Digital Collections of the New York Public Library at the following URL:

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/eba370f0-fcdd-0136-41f6-594f634ce81a

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About Heirloom Collection:

Rodell Warner's Heirloom Collection gazes at images in the public domain through the distorting lenses of technology and time.

Heirloom Collection considers images in the public domain (works that are free of copyright restrictions) our collective cultural inheritance, and claims this inheritance by employing these heirlooms in contemporary works of art.

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