Earth, like a drop of water rnFrom here I travel in the smallest rnboat. A stroke of blue towardsrnthe Mysterium Tremendum rnrnWhether looking from outer space to Carl Sagan’s “pale blue dot”, or looking close up through a microscope, the earth is breathtaking in its complexity, in its interconnectedness of everything in it and on it. The patterns of the earth and on the earth and of living and non-living things resemble the branching out and branching in of lines, repeating ad infinitum. In this series of artwork I am working with the soft and transparent hues of water colour, paying homage to the planet of water. Onto it, the darker and sometimes shiny elements of randomness, of lines and dots and scratches, textures representing the at sometimes scorched earth, like a close-up of skin. rnrnThe poetry are lines and phrases from my poetry publication, Die aarde is ‘n eierblou ark, published in 2017 by Protea Boekhuis. Written in curves and circles, it asks of the onlooker to move their body, to move with the lines and thus participate in the process.
Jou aardtuig rond en blou
R750,00
Earth, like a drop of water rnFrom here I travel in the smallest rnboat. A stroke of blue towardsrnthe Mysterium Tremendum
MEDIUM: Watercolour and mixed media on acid free paper
DIMENSIONS: 290 x 210mm
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Category Susan Smith
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