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Who Are We? or "The Drollery" by Michael Hermesh
  • Michael Hermesh
  • Who Are We? or "The Drollery", 2025
  • Acrylic on Panel
  • 19.5 x 15.5 in
  • Framed: 21 x 16.75 in
  • Signature: Bottom Right
  • C$2,825
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For the moment, I have a new favorite art form; the Drollery, also known as a Grotesque. It is a small image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript, popular at the end of the dark ages, through medieval times.

Where the vast majority of the population could not read. It’s fun to think it was a way to make parchments with unreadable lines relevant. Our understanding of the world is not based on rational symbology.

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