This is my Earth Art. I was out in the windy and rainy weather recently, and found an area that had some bark, leaves and stems from the trees scattered on the ground. I saw these two pieces of bark and immediately thought of whales, or some kind of sea creature, but did not plan to do an aquarium scene until I got all the stuff in the house and sat down to check out all my treasures I found on the ground.
I started with just colored paper as a background once I did decide, but then remembered I had an old blue sheet that would enable me to go bigger.
Experimenting with the phone camera in different lighting, I came up with these three different but similar photo's of the artwork I named Seaing. I haven't thought of a better name, and don't plan to, since it was seeing a sea idea in the bits of nature that signifies the name. I really enjoyed playing around with the different ways of arranging the leaves and bark on the blue sheet, and then trying different views, angles and lighting until I arrived at this angle, and these three different light backgrounds. I think the lack of resolution with my camera is a doing a disservice to the natural colors of the leaves and bark, but that is what I did before dismantling the whole thing, and I want to move on now. I hope you can get the feeling of motion when you look at this, because that is part of what I hoped the viewer would see. The time it took was consuming, I don't do this stuff very fast at all, but I enjoyed the process, have no cares about what others think about it, and feel good about this first Earth Art I personally have ever done.
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