Original artwork description:

The title of this work comes from a line in a poem by Derek Walcott, and the painting was inspired by an image of the Earth taken from space -- ocean and ice cap, melding into a land mass, although my colors are more vivid because I wanted greater variety that one would see in an actual photo. It's an encaustic painting and so what appears came about by letting the thermal and air energy of the fusing process, along with the oil stick and powdered pigments I added, create the kind of slipping and cratering that the same forces created on the planet. It's more an embodiment of nature, although, obviously, it's also represented.

Materials used:

encaustic paint, powdered pigment, oil stick on cradled panel

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