Now Our Entries Revealed

I feel liberated now that I can share the pictures of the artwork that Chris and I entered in the Dear Fleisher event! I am sure both pieces are happy in their new homes and I hope that the new owners enjoy them completely and for a lifetime. Please disregard the terrible quality of the photos. We were rushed on the submission and we took photos quickly, indoors where it is dimmer than the natural lighting I normally use.

My piece was inspired by a winter full moon with a halo. When hexagonal ice crystals high in cirrus clouds scatter moonlight to our eyes in a certain way, a halo sometimes appears, much like rain distorts the light of the sun and sometimes creates rainbows. This glass moon is bright white, against a gray sky, surrounded by a haze of color. The lamination is clear iridized glass, which helps to reflect and transmit the rainbow of colors surrounding the moon. This is no ordinary moon, but is a moon before a snow storm. A moon in a mysteriously dark sky, colorful and radiant despite being slightly subdued by clouds, ice crystals, and other reflected light.

Chris's piece is from the vantage point of the Riverwalk in Philadelphia, looking out over the Schulykill River from the Art Museum area toward the Amtrak building. He is very interested in digital representing actual, and used a dot pattern, an amplitude modulation, to represent the setting. Chris says it represents Man's quest to become a dot. I am not sure that he is kidding.