Title: “ELEMENTAL MAGIC”
Size: 34.125” W x 29.5” H (unframed)
Story:
In ancient China, it was so powerful only the mythical dragon could control it. Man could not live without it. The power of it was so great it could carve and shape the landscape creating natural spectacles of unparalleled magnitude. Nothing on earth could survive without it. Yet for all its power and majesty it is impossible to grab and can disappear and evaporate before your very eyes. It can be as soft as velvet with the power of steel. It can create beauty out of buds and seeds, and misery out of dirt. For the Chinese, water was in every part of Chinese life from agriculture to the beauty of the land to the magic of the tranquil rivers that brought life and happiness.
Materials:
Acrylic paints on heavy French watercolor paper with raised antique gold leaf from China on vase, bordered with insets of silk brocade from the famous religious mills of Varanasi, India, with outside border panels of Yixing plaster with impressions formed using 17th – 18th century Asian fabric stamps, adorned at top with mid-1700s Chinese “Tian Yuan Bao” spade coin with ancient Chinese words surrounded with four dragons, all mounted onto museum board.
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