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Y Rhacs
Single artwork for Y Rhacs, provided through the SAIN Records collection on Wikimedia Commons.
Inside the image.
A square cover with a large, stylised dragon spread across the centre. It faces left, with an open, toothy mouth and a long, curved neck and body. Its pale grey-white wings rise and fan out behind it, their dark outlines and inner ribs clearly drawn. The dragon has a segmented, armour-like body, four red legs with dark claws, and a curling tail that ends in an arrow-shaped point at the upper right. A jagged red band runs horizontally behind its lower body and legs; below it, red paint-like forms spread and taper across the lower part of the image.
The background is a mottled charcoal-grey field, darker around the edges and subtly lighter behind the dragon. Several small black bird silhouettes cross the upper area. Near the lower right, a larger black bird stands on the grey ground, with a faint reddish shadow or reflection beneath it. The bottom third shifts into a broad red area, rising into irregular drips or tongues of colour at the left and centre. The dragon and the red forms are sharply contrasted against the rough-looking grey background. The image is flat and graphic rather than photographic, with bold outlines, simplified shapes and a slightly distressed surface treatment.
At the far right, the white uppercase text “Y RHACS” runs vertically, with the letters rotated to read from bottom to top. Near the bottom right, “GWIR GYMRY” appears in smaller, widely spaced white capitals. A much fainter line of text sits just beneath it but is not legible enough to transcribe confidently. The typography is clean and narrow, set apart from the central illustration and aligned close to the right and lower edges.
What the image evokes.
The dragon’s pale, carefully articulated wings and plated body give it the air of a heraldic beast, while its bright red limbs and the band of colour beneath it make the image feel contemporary and deliberately graphic. Its pose seems both airborne and grounded: the wings are open, but its feet hang low over the red forms, as if the creature is hovering above a painted landscape or emerging from a spill of colour.
The small birds in the grey sky lend a sense of scale and distance, and the lone dark bird below creates a quieter counterpoint to the central spectacle. The contrast between these natural silhouettes and the dragon’s elaborate, almost emblematic design leaves the scene hovering between mythic illustration and stark poster art. The rough grey field and bleeding red shapes suggest something weathered or unsettled; the image can feel proud and ceremonial at first glance, then slightly ominous on closer inspection.
Associations are subjective readings, rather than documented influences or statements of the artist’s intention.
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Lettering & observation notes
- Y RHACS — Vertically along the right edge, reading from bottom to top
- GWIR GYMRY — Near the lower right corner
- GWIR GYMRY — Faintly beneath the lower-right title; uncertain repetition
- A faint line beneath “GWIR GYMRY” is too indistinct to read confidently; it may repeat the same wording.
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- Source year
- 2014
- Source author field
- Sain (Records) Ltd
- Attribution
- Sain (Recordiau) Cyf.
- Collection
- SAIN / Wikimedia Commons
- Catalogue number
- Sain LL023
- Permission evidence
- Public VRT notice: 2017050910011681
- Source checked
- 20 October 2026
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