Touch: Keeper of Earth
This piece, similar to the last, is also made with sketch paper, a pencil, colored pencils, and a fine tip marker. It measures to about 8.5 inches in height and 11 inches in width. This piece was created because of the quote stated below and because I wanted to attempt to capture a figure as powerful as Mother Nature herself. Her headband shows the cycle of life for plants or trees while she holds the world in her hands as if she is keeping it safe. She also looks at peace since her eyes are closed and her hair is blowing in the wind.
"Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way."
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman. p. 84
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