"Ectoplasmic Beach"
( Série de ilustrações digitais )
© Eduardo Galvani
( Série de ilustrações digitais )
© Eduardo Galvani
In Ectoplasmic Beach, Eduardo Galvani invites viewers into a liminal shoreline where the veil between worlds thins and spectral forms emerge in rain-soaked silence.
Each artwork presents a singular apparition - an ectoplasmic entity assuming the ephemeral guise of a marine or aquatic animal, from seabirds and crustaceans to mythic fish and deep-sea dwellers. Evoking the long tradition of animal symbolism in global art - from Egyptian ibis gods to Japanese koi, from Indigenous oceanic totems to European bestiaries - Galvani's creatures do not simply represent fauna, but the spiritual, psychological, and mythological meanings that ripple through human histories.
They arrive not as beasts of nature, but as visions: translucent, metamorphic, and suspended in gesture. The constant presence of the beach in rain recalls the Romantic sublime, where nature is both beautiful and unknowable - a setting that, like the sea in Caspar David Friedrich's The Monk by the Sea, becomes a threshold between the earthly and the eternal. Rain, historicaly a motif of renewal and melancholy, washes the scene into a dreamlike register = cleansing and obscuring at once.
Printed in museum quality, these works echo the mystical sensibilities of Symbolist painting and early spiritual photography, yet are born from new media: artificial intelligence, programmed intuition, and generative vision. The result is a body of work that feels at once ancient and emergent - a digital animism for the Anthropocene.
"Ἑκάτη" (A fusion of artificial intelligence and ancient wisdom. This artwork is an ode to the powerful protective deity of the home, offering an enigmatic and watchful presence for your sacred space.)
"Uwatsu Ōwatatsumi" (A visual invocation of Uwatsu Ōwatatsumi — the ocean’s sacred guardian. A being of flowing forms and hidden tides, embodying the spirit of the sea and its eternal mysteries.)
"Anemoi" (An aesthetic meditation on the anemone — a gentle guardian, evoking symbols of protection and good fortune from Japanese tradition, and the Victorian ideals of anticipation and sincere love. A being of silent grace and intricate beauty, embodying resilience and emotional depth. An ethereal portrait of a delicate omen adrift between worlds, a bloom of sincerity in the ever-moving tide.)
"Hippocampus" (Behold the seahorse, an emblem of divine might and oceanic dominion, as envisioned by the ancient Greeks who saw it draw Poseidon's chariot through cerulean depths. In Phoenician and Etruscan lore, this mythical creature navigated souls across the final sea, a steadfast guardian on their journey to the great beyond. Across Asian fishing hamlets, its delicate form, dried and revered, served as a potent talisman warding off unseen malevolence, while in other traditions, it whispered promises of fortune and safeguarded earthly treasures.)
"कूर्म" ('Kurma', a serene invocation of the Turtle — an ancient emblem of cosmic order, endurance, and primordial wisdom. Across myriad cultures, the turtle’s slow, deliberate movement and enduring presence have rendered it a symbol of stability and timelessness, a living axis between earth and water, matter and spirit.)
"βήτα" (A meditative embodiment of the Betta fish — an aqueous apparition of iridescent splendor and layered significance. This delicate yet defiant being, all flowing fins and silent strength, drifts through realms of myth, culture, and symbol.)
"Homard" (Here, the lobster dissolves into pure gesture — a dance woven from salt, mist, and myth, resonant with the lunar cycles that have, for millennia, governed both tides and the life rhythms of marine creatures.)
"Akkorokamui" (Shrouded in mist and born from sea-foam and storm, the octopus appears not as mere creature but as a spectral figure—dancing through salt rain, its limbs like ribbons of memory. This is not a dance of emotion, but of eternal return, echoing lost civilizations.)
"Fenghuang" (The Fenghuang, rendered in shimmering plumes and glitched halos, is both ancient omen and synthetic muse — a finale that lingers like birdsong in rain, ephemeral and eternal.)
Signed and Numbered Prints
Each piece measures 40x60 cm (A2) and is printed in museum quality on 350 gsm Museum Etching paper (100% Cotton) using a Canon PROGRAF PRO-6100 and Lucia Pro inks. Unframed. Signed, numbered, and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
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