Illumination Comes In On the Breeze
⊛ Illumination Comes In On the Breeze
⊛ cut washi + chiyogami paper / wood
⊛ 4 x 6 in / 100 x 150 mm
⊛ private collection / commission
Let's pause, just for a brief moment, to breathe in how beautiful the background blue paper is. It's not possible for me to give the washi paper-makers of Japan enough credit for their amazing work. Before my knife even came close to this, it was a piece of art.
There are times when inspiration comes from a thousand different sources, blended together into a purée of ideas, then strained down to a… hm. I was planning on using a food analogy to explain the immensely complex filtering and evolution of a universe down into a singular concept, but nothing apt comes to mind. Perhaps you can help me out?
Other times, a single conversation can kick off a train of thoughts that lead inexorably to a destination. Such was the case here. Illumination Comes In On the Breeze was created as a commission where everything I needed to jump into sketching was included in a single email. The only concrete detail was the love of dark blue. Everything else was subtext.
Subtext and somewhat gelatinous owlishness.
Work-in-Progress: early sketches
Work-in-Progress: composition sketches
Work-in-Progress: final drawing