Its own room
Here, A Sea Turtle is My Father
Britt Freda · Egg tempera, gold leaf and graphite on clayboard panel · 24″ h × 36″ w
Nothing here has been enhanced. Everything you see is derived from the object — the record below says exactly how each view was made.
Set your screen once. Hold a bank card against the screen and slide until the orange outline matches its width.
The surface under moving light
This view is built only from real photographs of the work, each lit from a different angle, so you can move the light yourself and watch the real surface answer. It is being captured in the studio and will appear here. Until then we show nothing rather than an imitation.
“It is essential to compel a person to love something before they'll risk what it takes to defend it.”— Britt Freda
A green turtle crosses both panels of the diptych, and the seam runs down the middle of the composition rather than being hidden at an edge. The shell is her mosaic method at its most systematic — scutes of burnt umber, gold and olive, each outlined, tessellating outward from the spine. The water behind is made of the same vocabulary in cooler tones, pale blue and grey ovals packed edge to edge, so animal and element are built from one material and separated only by temperature. The head is the exception: modelled, particular, the eye dark and open. Everything else is pattern; the face is a portrait.
The Authenticity Record
| View | Made from | Processing |
|---|---|---|
| The whole work, deep zoom, loupe, true size | Gallery photograph of the work | None beyond resizing for the web |
Nothing on this page is retouched, relit in software or generated. A full studio capture of this work is scheduled.
ArtistBritt Freda
MediumEgg tempera, gold leaf and graphite on clayboard panel
Size24″ h × 36″ w
Price$5,000
MediumEgg tempera, gold leaf and graphite on clayboard panel
Size24″ h × 36″ w
Price$5,000