About the work

This one has been here the longest.

In The Elder, Di Nicolantonio distills the entire vocabulary of the Futuropia Cities series into a single vertical form a great twisted trunk from which disc-like platforms have grown outward over what feels like centuries, each level a different era of inhabitation, each ring of structure a decade of slow organic expansion. The surrounding trees do not frame it. They defer to it.

There is something totemic here, something pre-urban. Before Verdania became a city, before the networks of Mycelium spread beneath its streets, before Solstice found its equilibrium there was this. A single structure that decided to grow, and never stopped.

The sketch quality is deliberate and honest. This is not a finished building. It is a living thing caught mid-growth, and Di Nicolantonio has the wisdom not to resolve what nature has not yet resolved.

The origin point of the Futuropia universe.

An original drawing from the Futuropia Cities series by artist-futurist Sébastien Di Nicolantonio.

Edition Unique original — one of a kind

Signature Hand-signed by the artist

Authentication Sold with certificate of authenticity and gallery invoice

Technique Original drawing — pen and watercolor on paper

Dimensions 29.7 × 42 cm — A3 format

Framing Unframed — framing available upon request