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Original India ink drawing on an antique nautical chart. (Unique piece).

The work uses a nautical chart of the Gulf of Bothnia, in the Baltic Sea, as its support. The intervention in India ink marks the presence of a coastal industrial complex—not as an identifiable building, but as a zone of saturation and transformation of the landscape.

The drawing adopts a cold, compact rendering. The density of the black makes the infrastructure opaque, almost impenetrable. In this northern environment where mapping evokes emptiness, distance, and ice, the India ink brings forth a continuous mechanical presence. The factory expands, organizes itself, and permanently alters the coastline.

This is not a romantic image, but a record of occupation. The contrast between the antique cartographic support and the black mass of the drawing registers industrial activity as a persistence, even in territories perceived as peripheral or untouched.