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In this 1906 reproduction chromolithograph, the British printer William Griggs reproduced one of the more vivid visions of the afterlife ever committed to paper: the Burmese conception of hell. Fire and shadow coil around tiny human figures, each one caught in an act of judgment or torment, their punishments as intricate as their crimes. The image belongs to The Thirty-Seven Nats, a study of Burmese spirit worship that attempted to catalogue what could not be contained: faith, fear, and the moral architecture of the unseen world.
Rendered in striking reds and blacks, the work balances ethnography and imagination. A map not of place, but of consequence.
• 12" x 16" archival print
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper is sourced from Japan
In this 1906 reproduction chromolithograph, the British printer William Griggs reproduced one of the more vivid visions of the afterlife ever committed to paper: the Burmese conception of hell. Fire and shadow coil around tiny human figures, each one caught in an act of judgment or torment, their punishments as intricate as their crimes. The image belongs to The Thirty-Seven Nats, a study of Burmese spirit worship that attempted to catalogue what could not be contained: faith, fear, and the moral architecture of the unseen world.
Rendered in striking reds and blacks, the work balances ethnography and imagination. A map not of place, but of consequence.
• 12" x 16" archival print
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper is sourced from Japan