Visual Ambrosia

Visual Ambrosia is an ambient video production studio which specializes in creating slow TV programs using 19th C. Chromolithographs.

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These are mesmerizing enamel images with gold dust lines between colors of “eyes.” Zooming in, the “eyes” stare with concentration. Chromolithograph by George Ashdown Audsley

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Detail of a dragon chromolithograph by George Ashdown Audsley. This image was taken from The Ornamental Arts of Japan.

In his words: “No one can be more impressed with the manifold shortcomings of the present Work than I am; for it is not too much to say that had its entire series of Plates and every page of its Text been devoted to the treatment of any one of the more important Sections it embraces, much would remain, even in that Single art, unillustrated and unexplained. Such being the case, I trust to the indulgence of my readers and the consideration of my critics when they turn over the following leaves.”