I had such high hopes for this but perhaps I didn't think it through enough. The quilted image seemed to be the harder to achieve and in the end was easy. I painted the earth in acrylics on canvas then added the quilting of DaVinci's image. The Earth is made up of 70 % water (including the North and South polar icecaps). Man is 60 to 80 % water. Or as they so wonderfully described us on a Star Trek episode "bags of mostly water".
I layered the painted canvas with batting and commercial cotton and quilted in a concentric circle over the entire surface. Then stamped with paint the letters and numbers. If I did this again, and I might, just to see if I can make it more elegant and less clumsy, I would use a fabric color copy of earth and a finer stitch on the the man. I didn't have the time necessary to do either.My point here was that we are linked to the Earth in our need for water. When scientists go looking for life on other planets, they look first for evidence of water (frozen, liquid or dried up). When the water is missing, so is life.
4 comments:
Great idea for interpreting the theme. I'm not a trekkie so the 'bags of water' description was new to me.
I like yours every bit as much as the original 12. It may not have lived up to your expectations of it but it meets mine.
I too like your interpretation and I think that you've conveyed it quite well. So often it's not the finished product that's as important as the path to get there.
Another interesting and original interpretation of the theme -- and I think you did it very well. It's visually very appealing. You might like this better after you've been away from it for a bit.
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