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Drawing by Ellen Driscoll, Untitled 3 (walnut and sumi ink on paper, 59" x 82", 2015). The image illustrates a key medium in Ellen Driscoll's career: her drawings, which intersected and connected to her critical sculpture and installation works examining contemporary culture's over-dependence on fossil fuels, rampant consumption and geopolitical imbalance. The images illustrates her sumi and walnut ink drawing series, "Soundings" (2015), which consisted of blended ochre, umber and coffee-colored silhouettes and spectral imagery of ivy skeins, volunteer plants, birds, clothing, skeletal billboards, abandoned loading docks and honeycombed structures that formed liminal topographies of land and water, culture and nature, ruin and rebirth observed in Red Hook, Brooklyn. This work was commissioned by a major museum, publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Ellen Driscoll. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key medium from throughout Ellen Driscoll's career—drawing, which was consistently interconnected with her sculpture and installation works examining social and geopolitical issues and events related to power, agency, transition and ecological imbalance. Her drawings often employ imagery of plants, birds, clothing, the built environment and industry, and pattern in order to explore themes such as adaptability, transition, transformation, ephemerality and the resilience of the natural world in the face of sociopolitical threat. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this key medium, which brought Driscoll ongoing and new recognition through coverage by major critics and publications and museum commissions and exhibitions. Ellen Driscoll's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Ellen Driscoll, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.