BABEL by IMAGHA
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Medium: Designed and modeled in Revit, edited with Nano Banana and DALL-E, manipulated and color-graded in Picsart, rescaled and imprinted using Sketchbook, with final color grading completed in Adobe Lightroom.
Dimensions: 40 x 60 in
Year: 2026
Price: $10500.00 USD
Status: available
Genesis 11:1-9 AMP [1] Now the whole earth spoke one language and used the same words (vocabulary). [2] And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they settled there. [Gen 10:10] [3] They said one to another, “Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly [in a kiln, to harden and strengthen them].” So they used brick for stone [as building material], and they used tar (bitumen, asphalt) for mortar. [4] They said, “Come, let us build a city for ourselves, and a tower whose top will reach into the heavens, and let us make a [famous] name for ourselves, so that we will not be scattered [into separate groups] and be dispersed over the surface of the entire earth [as the Lord instructed].” [Gen 9:1] [5] Now the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. [6] And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one [unified] people, and they all have the same language. This is only the beginning of what they will do [in rebellion against Me], and now no evil thing they imagine they can do will be impossible for them. [7] Come, let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) go down and there confuse and mix up their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” [8] So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the surface of the entire earth; and they stopped building the city. [9] Therefore the name of the city was Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the entire earth; and from that place the Lord scattered and dispersed them over the surface of all the earth. Upon acquisition, the physical artwork will be accompanied by both a physical and a digital Certificate of Authenticity.
Why collect this work?
BABEL turns extreme vertical scale into a warning: the centered tower appears less like stable achievement than a fragile system whose failure spreads through the city below.
- The artist profile identifies IMAGHA as a Nigeria-based multidisciplinary creator with architectural training. That structural perspective is relevant here because buildings organize the image’s competing ideas of coordination, aspiration, and vulnerability.
- In the supplied image, a narrow high-rise divides the storm-dark sky while flame and smoke rupture one side. Crowds, boats, cranes, and low buildings accumulate beneath it. The title and catalogue’s Genesis passage frame this unequal distribution of height as a modern retelling of Babel.
- The documented digital medium combines Revit with several image-generation and editing tools. Architectural modelling can establish the tower’s severe geometry, while layered manipulation makes possible the improbable density and speculative aircraft visible in the scene.
- Catalogued as a 2026 work measuring 40 by 60 inches, BABEL is a focused encounter with a current contradiction: sophisticated systems can unite labour and technology while concentrating risk around a single monumental project.
About the Artist
IMAGHA
IMAGHA is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Digital. Based in Ibadan, NG.
Nationality: Nigerian
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