CETUS

Details

Artist: Rollin Leonard
Year: 2016
Medium: Photograph, dye sublimation print on quilted fabric
Dimensions: {'height': '72 in', 'width': '144 in'}

Description

Cetus, in mythology, was a Sea Monster, the source of the word Cetatean, (the genus of Whales), and also the name of a Constellation of stars.

"Cetus" is a very large image produced in extremely precise detail. The effect requires that hundreds of separate photographs be taken, with the camera focused on only a very small piece of the whole image. Using digital techniques to stitch or meld them together, these many separate pictures become a single image in which everything is in full focus, providing the extremely crisp detail that characterizes them. "Cetus" is printed on a special fabric, and backed with a second fabric which references the constellation of stars to which the title refers. The quilt, which is 12 x 6 feet, was made in Maine by Patti's Machine Quilting of Portland.

Price:

$15,000 on 1tdibs.com Sources:
https://www.1stdibs.com/art/photography/portrait-photography/leonard-rollin-cetus/id-a_1214003/