The Cold Vision by Austin M. Collings — Pen & ink on paper, 2023

Physi-Tual Catalogue · No. 002

The Cold Vision

by Austin M. Collings

Pen & ink on paper · 2023

A figure lying in a snowy winter forest — stillness between worlds.

Available formats

Canvas PrintWood PrintThrow Pillow
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About this work

The Cold Vision shows a figure lying still in a snow-covered winter forest. Whether the figure is asleep, dreaming, in trance, or has crossed something is left for the viewer to decide.

The piece is part of the Physi-Tual catalogue's quieter register — works that explore not the moment of supernatural encounter but the long, cold space around it. Pen and ink on paper, rendered in a way that lets the white of the page do the work of the snow.

Reproduced as canvas prints, wood prints, and throw pillows. The wood print format suits this work especially well — the grain reads as the texture of the forest.

Themes

  • Stillness
  • Trance states
  • Winter symbolism
  • Threshold

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The Physi-Tual genre

Every artwork in this catalogue belongs to the Physi-Tual genre — a trademarked literary and visual category created by AMC Publishers in 2021 for works that explore where the physical and spiritual worlds overlap.

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