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Author: Dimi Tabacelea

Dimensions: 15000 x 20000 px at 300 dpi
Recommended printing formats:
• Print 300 dpi: 50 × 66.75 in (127 × 169.5 cm)
• Print 150 dpi: 100 × 133.25 in (254 × 338.5 cm)

This work represents an extreme refinement of form through the embrace of decay. Successive layers of corroded, peeled, and weathered narratives create a patina that fascinates eternity. The spirit reveals itself fully only as matter recedes, much like an icon by Andrei Rublev attains supreme purity through its own erosion over time. Time transforms the monument into ruin, yet this desolation is the very womb of universal density. It is the process by which pressure transmutes fossils into oil, and the exhaustion of matter crystallizes gold and diamond. The chaos of cosmic collisions, where asteroids disintegrate, remains the only path toward the formation of spheres teeming with life. Here, visual grit ascends to sanctity. The wrinkles of time are transformed into lines of force, and the weariness of objects metamorphoses them into "Icons of the World". Through this "Rupture", superfluous details and vanities vanish, allowing the essence to shine forth. Everything that appears destroyed acquires a new nobility: the patina that ennobles.

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Dimi Art on Objkt