The gallery
Art & Specimens
A small room of works on panel, paper and parchment, kept alongside the institute’s own specimens. Every piece carries its own entry: the title, the image, the medium, the dimensions, and the price.
The gallery is a short walk from the shelves rather than a separate concern. A stone with a shape in it, a plate drawn for a working, and a painting that holds a room — the institute treats all three as objects that were made to be looked at.
How a piece is listed
What every entry carries
Nothing in this room is sold on a photograph alone. Each work is listed with the particulars a buyer actually needs, and anything that is not stated is answered plainly when it is asked.
- The title
- What the work is called, as the maker named it.
- The medium
- What it is made of and what it is made on.
- The dimensions
- The size of the work itself, in inches.
- The price
- Stated plainly, or marked as by arrangement.
One listing of its own
The Stone of Ovberon©
The institute keeps one specimen as a listing of its own, rather than as a line in the stone room. It is The Stone of Ovberon©, and it has its own page, laid out for a piece of museum grade: the institute’s own photographs, the listing as the institute wrote it, and the terms on which it is offered.
The listing is the institute’s own: the title, the price, and the account of the specimen — what it is, its properties, the rare visual effect it displays, and the term the institute coined for that effect.
The headline piece
The Stone of Ovberon
The Stone of Ovberon: 500g Museum-Grade Labradorite Cabinet Masterpiece Exhibiting Phantasmadorescent Anomaly
$3,000,000
Labradorite · Available
The institute’s own specimen, offered not as a mere mineral specimen, but as a singular piece of natural fine art.
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The gallery
Every piece here is a labradorite of the institute’s own selecting, each listed with its medium, its dimensions and its price. Enquiries are answered by the institute directly.
The Lamp and the Long Wall
Ink and gold leaf on panel · 24 × 18 in
A single lantern set above a course of laid stones. The long wall runs the width of the panel and the light is held above it, the way a house is held by the hour kept in it.
$480
Available
Three Curves and a Threshold
Ink on parchment · 18 × 24 in
Three long curtains drawn across a single straight line, with the trace falling away to the right. It is a study of going quietly, and of what is given up rather than guarded.
$360
Available
The Open Hand Above Water
Charcoal and chalk on paper · 22 × 30 in
An open hand held above three lines of water. The hand is drawn empty and open, which is the whole of the drawing: a hand holding something cannot be offered.
$540
Available
The Doorway and the Sheaf
Ink on laid paper · 20 × 26 in
A frame of two uprights and a lintel, and a tied sheaf of stems standing beside it. A way that has been opened, and what is carried through it.
$420
Available
Two Vessels, One Line
Ink and wash on panel · 24 × 24 in
Two shallow vessels set one above the other, joined by a single curving line that touches both and closes neither. Neither vessel is drawn larger than the other, and that is the whole of the argument.
$460
Available
The Returning Spiral
Gold leaf and ink on panel · 30 × 30 in
The spiral turning inward with its tail running off the edge of the panel, unfinished on purpose. The mark of a season closing, and of the ordinary day it returns to.
$1,250
Available
The collection
The Stones of Ovberon©
The piece on this page belongs to a collection: every stone and specimen the institute holds that displays the anomaly it named. That collection has a gallery of its own, and it is a different thing from this single listing.
A page of its own
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A page laid out in parts, and written by the institute. Each part stands clearly marked and empty until her own wording is in it, and then it reads as ordinary prose.
A work is bought after it has been looked at properly.
Ask about any piece — its condition, its frame, or a photograph at full size — and the institute will answer before anything is paid.