two wands
Fireball!
year of creation: 2021
materials: ink, water, paper, highlighter ink, colored pencils, oil paint
process: The background was made through ink marbling, in a Japanese technique called Suminagashi. Paper is dipped onto water that has swirling ink on the surface. Masking tape was used to preserve the background pattern while a broken highlighter’s ink formed the hot pink. A volcano and slingshot was initially sketched in colored pencils, to be lathered in oil paint, making the volcano voluptuous and the fireball menacing.
two wands: windy wilds v tarot card :two of Wands
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Worldwide revolution: Global solidarity and revolutionary optimism. The literal translation means to shake off, represented on this card by the slingshot. For decades, children from Falasteen throw rocks at the tanks of the illegal occupiers, risking their lives, standing against injustice, freeing their people and country.
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Honoring revolutionaries.
Patrice Lumumba and Thomas Sankara.
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Action is depicted through the fireball being flung from the slingshot.
