Thursday, March 27, 2008

hand print topography:ryder

This is the second piece in this series.
I started with,
a scan of Ryder's hands.



Below is the finished piece, 25"x 25".
I started out thinking that because of his youth,
his "map" would be more open and simplistic.
But as I worked and thought about it,
I decided that age had nothing to do with it.
If anything, his piece is more complex than mine
(the first piece in the series),
showing potential--undiscovered places
waiting to be explored.



below is a closer view of the piece above.

6 comments:

judy said...

wow. That is so interesting. I want to stare at it and follow all of the lines. It is so interesting to me that we live in such a planar world and yet when we look at the macro (outer space - the cosmos) and then look at the micro - inside - intricacies of what we are all made up of we discover so much more than what we typically recognize in our day to day lives.

Jen said...

I would really love to see these in the full size! I really like this piece.

wild murdocks said...

Judy, good point! It's interesting how similar the micro and macro are--like galaxies and atoms.

Thanks Jen, it is always exciting for me to see a piece printed in it's full glory. It looks so different than on the computer screen. It's just very expensive, so it doesn't happen that often!

Haleys said...

I love it. It is amazing.

toddash said...

alina, these are really cool! i love them! you are so amazingly creative!

mimi said...

alina, these are genius. you keep surprising me. there is so much talent in you.