Sunday 22 February 2009

Earth

A little while ago I decided to look at the four elements and see what they meant to me, particularly as a scientist, and also their symbolism. I have just re-read my blog written on the brainstorm I did for earth, which you can see here. Reading this has sparked images and ideas in my head.

For each subject of Project Spectrum I want to complete several different projects and I would like to include an A4 journal style collage sheet on each. This is my current idea for my earth journal sheet and I shall start collecting images etc soon.

In the centre is a picture of Men-an-Tol (a Circular Cornish stone with a hole in the middle) Around the stone is a little food cycle with the animals flowing round the stone. This is overlaid on a fractal design which has been altered to make it faint. In the corners are nature patterns, such as those from rocks. There will also be a border at the top and the bottom taken from a pretty junk mail envelope. This is liable to change somewhat but it gives me somewhere nice to start from. I would also like to include some words on the page somewhere to....

Yesterday I also bought a pack of air drying clay and I expect to do something with this. I also like the idea of getting out my bead loom and doing something in earth colours. We shall see what else I get up to....

6 comments:

  1. See "what else you get up to"...I'm exhausted already just reading about it.

    Sounds spectacular!

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  2. *laugh* this is over the course of a couple of months... I also have a habit of having my projects run over a little!

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  3. There's one really old goddess (Chinese I think, can't remember the name) whose job it is to keep the elements sorted. Your project sounds like the work of this deity. Of course the world is a mosaic of all the elements, but they're distinct. Very cool.

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  4. What a great blog Rose. Love the style and the color makes me smile!

    Please stop by Psyche Connections and say hello when you are in the neighborhood!
    Linda

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  5. Thank you very much for that information Reya. It might be really nice to draw all four collages together into one big collage with her in the middle. I shall have to do some research!

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  6. Thank you Linda! I will come and have a look when I get back from work! I think all the girly colours are under-rated. i was a pink tom-boy but then I hit my teens and realised I couldn't be a tom-boy and like pink!

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