Version six of this image was posted back in September. In that post, I explained that it truly is a hybridized mixed media project. Bits and pieces of creation, whether if by the hand of nature, or by the hand of eVan, were gathered together and integrated on to an electronic canvas.
One thing that I didn’t describe to you, however, is that bulb-like flower with a blue stem on the right side of the picture. It’s actually from a diagram depicting the Bio-Savart law. This law is basically an equation describing the magnetic field generated by an electric current. An electric current, its proximity, length, direction and magnitude are related to a magnetic field in the equation used to compute the Bio-Savart law.
Explaining math to you wasn’t the intent of this project however. Even the title of this series is quite long and requires some attention. I thought of shortening the title to Pastel Dust of Lepidoptera, but I already posted a previous version (version 6) with the long title, so I decided to roll with what I originally started with in the title.
Dust can be found on butterflies, moths, and on the ends of stamens of flowers, and the colors of these naturally occurring dust-like substances are often a pleasurable sight to witness. Colorfully compacted dust is also used in oil pastels for artists to create art works.
I used a piece from my Wrecked Tangles (Encircled) series for the background of this work, which involved the usage of oil pastels. Dust is symbolic of time, as in the sand that is used in hour glasses, or, the sand that resides on beaches which seem to continue on forever into the horizon.
Dust is also symbolic of taking many small steps in order to complete a project. When you finally complete a detailed and lengthy project, you can relax at the end of your constructed beach and enjoy the beach-scape built by your own efforts.
Art of eVan 