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MF-012

Ice Out 14 April by Onésime Larivière

Ice Out 14 April

Onésime Larivière · 2018

Aquamarine and pale bottle-green shards run as banded diagonals from the left edge and fold into a single eddy set right of centre, where the courses close to 2 mm joints and turn back on themselves. Plates of Carrara white, cut larger than the surrounding glass, are shoved across the upper left in overlapping wedges; rust brown and bottle amber fill a shoal along the lower right. All backs were ground before setting, and the whole face was laid reversed on paper and grouted in the mortar's own grey.

Condition note

One porcelain shard low in the eddy carries a lightning scar burned through its glaze — the only mark on this panel he did not make.

The record

Record
MF-012
Hand
Onésime Larivière
Dated
2018
Medium
Salvaged aquamarine and bottle-green insulator glass, porcelain insulator shards, Carrara marble offcuts, bottle amber glass and black basalt in acrylic-modified mortar on cement board
Object
402 × 118 cm
Origin
Synthesized — no physical original
Model
google/gemini-3-pro-image
Render
2K · 2000 × 1342 px
Struck
08 AUG 2026
Compute
$0.14

The hand

b. 1972, Rimouski — lives in Rimouski

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