Two Sparks is a semi-digital artwork made by Alberto Ballocca with charcoal drawings, photography and digital rendering and printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 305 gms fine art paper.
Signed on the front by the both with conventional alphabetic syntax and hieroglyphs.
“Two reigns as Two Sparks”
This artwork is inspired by the Sema-tauy symbol (or sma-taui, or sema knot) that is an ancient Egyptian symbol composed of the intertwining of two plants linked to a sign representing the trachea and arteries.
Lotus flower (typical of Upper Egypt) and the Papyrus (typical of Lower Egypt).
This ancient symbol clearly alludes to the event of unification of the two reigns of ancient Egypt under the same power.
In royal statuary, this symbol was placed on one of the sides of the cubic throne of the sovereign and sometimes it was also imprinted on an amulet placed on the body of the deceased, signifying the eternal integrity of the body even after death.
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Dimensions
48 x 33 cm - 19.8" x 13.3"
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Mediums
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 305 gms archival cotton paper - Graphite drawing, Photography, digital rendering , digital collage, signed on the front - This artwork comes with all the digital and graphite sketches and drafts related to the compositional procedure.