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The first work in the “Etude” series situates a hand-drawn French bulldog within a fragment of Leo Delibes’ Coppélia Waltz. The original sheet music remains visibly intact — title, tempo markings, staff lines — forming both ground and compositional framework.

 

Rather than serving as background, the score functions as structure. The dog’s body follows the horizontal logic of the notation, its weight aligned with the measured progression of the waltz. Printed rhythm and drawn line intersect without hierarchy.

 

The torn edges of the paper are preserved, not corrected. They emphasize the fragmentary nature of the archive and foreground the material history of the sheet itself. The drawing does not romanticize the past; it occupies it.

 

As the opening study, Etude No. 1 establishes the central inquiry of the series:How does a contemporary gesture inhabit an existing system of time?

 

The answer is quiet.

It rests.

Original artwork by Julia Shilo
12 x 8 ½ in | 30 x 21 cm
13 ½ x 10 in | 34 x 25 cm (framed)
Acrylic, charcoal, ink, collage, paper, frame

Frenchie Etude No. 1

SKU: #13301
$2,000.00Price
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