‘Espresso Mirage’ Art Print by Vertigo Artography
The desert is the ice cream. That is the whole thing. That is everything.
A giant hand holds a stainless steel ice cream scoop, and it has just lifted a perfect ball of espresso flavoured ice cream from the desert floor. The sand, the rock, the cracked warm earth, it is all ice cream. Espresso flavour, specifically, because the colour is exactly right and the desert has always had that quality, rich, bitter, sun baked, ancient. The scoop is clean. The ball is perfect. In the crater left behind, the desert stretches away to distant mountains and at the base of it all, tiny and completely unbothered, camels stands in the heat.
The camels have seen this before. The desert has not.
Espresso Mirage is a surreal food art print of pure, committed absurdist logic, the kind that presents an impossible premise with complete photographic sincerity and leaves you simultaneously laughing and genuinely impressed that nobody thought of it sooner. The warm ochre and deep brown tones of the desert as espresso are pitch perfect. The scale is extraordinary. The deadpan delivery is everything.
This is the print for coffee lovers who love art. For art lovers who love coffee. For anyone who has ever stared into a perfect scoop of espresso gelato and thought: this looks like somewhere I've been. It belongs in cafes and coffee shops and home kitchens and dining rooms and anywhere that takes its coffee seriously enough to put it on the wall in the most unexpected way possible.
Beyond the home, Espresso Mirage is the statement piece for hotel lobbies that want to stop guests in their tracks. For boutique hotel rooms that earn their reviews through the details. For restaurant walls that understand that the experience begins before the menu arrives. For cruise ship corridors, corporate reception areas, cafe chains and any hospitality space that wants art with genuine wit, genuine scale and a concept that lands instantly with everyone who sees it.
The perfect gift for coffee lovers, desert travellers, ice cream enthusiasts, surrealism collectors and anyone who has ever looked at a landscape and thought: I wonder what flavour that is.
Specifications
• All art prints are gallery quality Giclée printed.
• Printed on 200gsm archival matt paper using the finest archival inks.
• Print has a white border around the image.
• Print is titled at the base of the image with signature.
• Sizes specified are inclusive of the overall paper dimensions, including the white border.
• Art print does not include frame.
• Due to different screen configurations, the colour of the purchased print may slightly vary to what you see on your computer.
Packaging
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All A3 (equivalent variants) art prints are shipped in a firm recyclable cardboard mailing envelope or tube and marked - DO NOT BEND.
All A2/A1/A0 (equivalent variants) art prints are shipped in a firm recyclable cardboard mailing tube and marked - DO NOT BEND.
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