IDENTIFIERS
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id:	167354
accession number:	CAL 3-2007

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Manuscripts and Printed Books
collection:	Calligraphy Collection

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167354





CATEGORIES
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category: calligraphy

DATING
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creation date:	1998 - 1998
creation date earliest:	1998
creation date latest:	1998

CREATORS
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maker: Brown, Denis

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: mm
value: 300

dimension: Width
units: mm
value: 216



CITATIONS
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the Edge: the magazine of the Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society
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IMAGES

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