It's (almost) finished! (The only thing I have left to do is fill in the words on the blue patch with yellow so they're actually visible.) I seem to have started an unfortunate trend in which I have to go back and fix things in literally every piece I make, but for now it's on display as it is. The piece came out of wanting to use colors and words to describe my chaotic emotional state (I promise Q4 Project #1 will be the last piece I post about on here about my February). I wrote a free-verse poem and carved it into various layers of paint. The full poem is here since some of the words are covered up in the painting:
Pebrero I yearn for the days when life made sense But hear me, Petrichor No more rain shall fall for you Because I still have sense And I still love myself I chose black, red, yellow, green, and blue paint because I figured those colors were bold enough to stand out from each other. What ended up happening was that the green barely stood out from the black, but the yellow was much bolder than I realized it would be, so because of the way I carved the words, they were visible on all the colors except for blue. I need to go back and put yellow paint over the words in the blue to balance out the unexpectedly bold yellow, but otherwise all is well. It will either be called Petrichor (the name I used for the person for which the painting was made - seriously, I feel a little like I'm in middle school and calling my crushes stupid code nicknames all over again every time I think about that) or Pebrero (if Google is to be believed, the Tagalog word for February), but I still have to decide. (Or I could just do both.) My Q4 project will follow the series SHAME and ENOUGH started, rather than this theme, but I would not be opposed to doing something like this again in the future.
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