Monday, March 1, 2021

 Metaphorical Landscape

This was a tough one. I started with a space helmet, with a landscape reflected on the spherical glass. Then I tried a mythical landscape of different masks. I tried this several times, but never got what I wanted.

Next came a tree with eyes like masks. This was ok, but to get the masks to read, I overworked it. 

I looked at landscapes I had photographed and selected a ski image from Portillo, Chili, because it had lots of jagged rocks that I thought could look like faces or masks.


Then I went back to the first idea and tried again to make it work, but it, too got overworked.

Talking to my son, I got the idea of going for a specific mask--a spa facial mask. I tired several landscapes within the face, a jungle, a desert, a fantasy dystopian wasteland, finally a city. The first go, the city was coming through too strongly, so, I did a wash to soften it. 







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