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Duke and Lume
072024–2026

Allegories

Allegories gathers the works that mean something beyond themselves: a balance, a gate standing open, one tree holding a whole plain. Each is a small proposition set out in paint — weight against lightness, permanence against passing — left for the viewer to settle.

5 works

A painterly nocturne of a small house with one lit window standing on a tall rock spire above calm water, a long stair cut up the rock, a wind-bent tree beside the house, a crescent moon above and a wide gold halo behind, with faint Russian marginal notes and registration marks printed into the surface.
Weight against lightness; permanence against passing.
A blue-and-white porcelain vase painted with cobalt roses, its upper half dissolving into drifting black ink and smoke against a pale background.
Porcelain Requiem2024
An old-master style oil painting of an ornate crescent-shaped brass balance on a marble plinth, one pan holding a polished violet stone and the other a single white feather, in warm window light.
The Weighing2026
A painterly landscape of a solitary round-crowned tree with golden autumn foliage standing in a wide ochre field, beneath a pale grey sky with one soft cloud and distant low hills on the horizon.
The Long Field2026
A painterly scene of a colossal stone gateway standing open above still water in a rocky gorge, a pale sun low behind cloud within the archway, gold worked into the masonry, a windswept tree to the right and a single cloaked figure standing on the wet flagstones before it.
The Crossing2026
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