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2010-03-03

Speaking with Ravens

"Between 1970 and 1975 Doc Togden created this collection of oil paintings on canvas and hardboard called Speaking with Ravens. In August 2005, the artist came upon a broken box loosely held together with perished tape. Upon opening the box he discovered sixty-four dusty and damaged slides of his Art College oil paintings—images he had not seen for thirty years. The slides had been exposed to excessive heat, cold, and damp and had been moved from place to place over the years. They were in bad condition: the film emulsion had puckered in places and fungus had made some areas almost irreparable."

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