IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 167354 accession number: CAL 3-2007 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Artist's statement: Text is from Leviticus 15. This piece is satire on catholic values of puritanism, playing on the imaginary of the children's board game where ladders carry you onward and upwards but you slip downwards if you land on a snake. Here, I replace the snakes of the board-game with calligraphic sperm cells, which are actually flourished on to the picture glass. The black sperm are depicted with forked tongues and the inclusion of little ladders made of balsa wood completes the reference to the children's game .. A playful work, but with sinister undertones, for it alludes to the numerous sex and paedophile scandals exposed within church hierarchies. title: CAL_3-2007_.jpg LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: Calligraphy Collection STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167354 CATEGORIES ------ category: calligraphy DATING ------ creation date: 1998 - 1998 creation date earliest: 1998 creation date latest: 1998 CREATORS -------- maker: Brown, Denis DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: mm value: 300 dimension: Width units: mm value: 216 CITATIONS -------- the Edge: the magazine of the Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb5/CAL_3_2007_.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 545 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb5/mid_CAL_3_2007_.jpg height: 697 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb5/CAL_3_2007_.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 545 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb5/preview_CAL_3_2007_.jpg height: 349 pixels width: 250 pixels