ENCOMPASS’D

Encopass'd Vessels - Afeter Molyneux 1592 photo Sylvain Deleu
 
 

Circumnavigation Vessels 1- 11  1592 

Porcelain, 2021. 

Various sizes (largest 15 x 7 x 6 cm) 

Soft slab-built cylinders, breath inflated forms 

Part of a set of 21. Edition 1 of 3. 

Each scribed with detail from Molyneux’s 1592 Terrestrial  Globe via a Middle Temple archival survey photograph depicting  Drake’s circumnavigation. Verso scribed with corresponding  text from the anonymous diary account of the voyage published  by Richard Hakluyt in 1589 ‘Principals of Navigation’ giving  a visual shorthand of commodities gained and a timeline  of the circumnavigation voyage as depicted by Molyneux. 

Vessels telling the story of an archival survey, telling a story of a  globe, telling the story of a circumnavigation. Listening for the unheard voices.

 
 

ENCOMPASS'D set of 21 porcelain vessels

Individual vessels available to order from Edition Number 2

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