Her Happiness Spreads on the Breeze

I wanted to capture the sense of pure joy my young model exuded when we were shooting in my garden. I felt as if happy energy was swirling in her, through her, and out into the world. So much so that I felt as if she was a part of the garden. I brought the image into photoshop and added flowers to her skin. I cut out long wavy strands of paper to represent hair, arranged them in my studio with real flowers and photographed them. I then printed the elements on cotton rag paper, cut them out and collaged them on the panel. The black paints are my way of highlighting elements and showing the motion of energy.

The sky is made of altered National Geographic Pages, and then glazed with a translucent blue paint. The hair is a photo of cut papers arranged with flowers and printed on cotton rag. The blue swirls are marbled paper cut out to show the flow of energy. Acrylic paints accent the living flowers and black lines accent the energy.

2018 - 26” x 24” x 2”
Mixed Media: handmade papers and paper ephemera, my photography and digital art, oil paint on wood panel