A grievance

ArtGrupa has a very interesting challenge theme: something meaningful to you, like a fleeting moment when something happened and which isn't visible to others.

This made me think of global warming and something on a very personal level. I come from an arctic country. Before the global warming we had winters. We had snow, plenty of snow and we had ice. Ships did hard, they couldn't move without ice breakers. The coldness was something fierce, and in a snow storm the small hard snow pellets ate into your skin.
Having grown up with it I find it hard to let go. I miss snow, I miss cold, I miss ice.

This set arose from the feeling of profound loss.

Background is a riot of mixed media on an old book page, and I selected the found texts to echo the feelings one might have during a cold and icy snow storm.

Darkness

The thing about darkness that strikes me most is how different everyday objects and surroundings are when there is no light. In the absence of light we see differently - not with eyes but with our skin, perhaps with the sense of smell, the sense of touch. It can be beautiful, it can be scary.

Darkness is the absence of light.

For technique I chose to do magazine transfer on a patterned paper. The transferred image is paler than the original  and the patterned paper added to the distortion. (You can see eyes behind the trees.)

Once the image was there I surrounded it with trees stamped with black ink, after that I added transparent gesso through a tree branch stencil. Finally I inked everything but the face with dark blue and brown inks and highlighted the faces with white acrylic wash.

I am entering this into:
ArtGrupa ATC: Darkness
Vintage Journey: Monochromatic
Eclectic Ellapu: Anything goes