Three on Black

Vasnetsov's bogatyrs are assembled from cells and lifted out of their landscape. The black ground removes everything but the figures.

The textbook painting is scattered into cells and reassembled: Vasnetsov from afar, mosaic up close. Beside them ride horsemen in Bilibin's manner, shield and red horse — two ways to tell the same epic.

Three riders, built from cells, a black ground.