Canvas to the Imagination

I decided to go with the buddha for today’s photo blog post, in honour of the meditation retreat I did this past weekend. I have a long way to go before I’m any good at it. I think my mind is just too chaotic.

I recently gave a print of this image to a friend, so I thought I’d post it here. It’s good to dig up older creations to remind myself of work I’m happy with.

This image was created specifically as a donation for the Textile Museum of Canada’s annual silent auction fundraiser. The face is a stone sculpture I photographed in one of the Egyptian Museums in Berlin. The overall forms and textures were created by combining photos of waterlilies, graffiti, and a computer-generated design.

Entitled “Faith”, this was my very first digital composite when I began learning how to use Adobe Photoshop. The image is created from five separate photographs, including the markings around the female subject’s eye. I realized after I had completed it that each detail of the piece (excluding the portrait) had a religious association - the rose window from La Sagrada Familia, a lion from a tomb in St. Peter’s Basilica, and details from Catholic tombstones. Hence the title, “Faith.”