AS A Song or A Symphony in the land of As
As you turn the key
you unlock the trees of the field
crowned with cloud
a Kings laurel.
[b]As[/b] the drawers spring open
The flat land trees
clap their hands
ribboning celebration
dancing freedom.
[b]As[/b] the roots are refreshed
a harvest of seed is carried
by sound.
[b]As[/b] the trees pluck their song
the music swells
drawing wings in their wake
that awaken the soul.
[b]As [/b]the strawberries and seed towers
note the feast
loveliness, strength and security
mushroom up.
As hands are linked
a building takes shape.
[b]As[/b] joy raptures the soul
a keyhole of heaven
wings
[b]A s[/b]ymphony
[b]As[/b] land door knockers
appear on the fence
for those who have eyes to see
and the birds fly down
[b]as[/b] free [b]as[/b] a leaf
sharing in the feast.
AS you gaze upon the land
a welcoming carpet appears
and the ribbons call forth
“Come and celebrate”.
I placed one main object very central as Yerka tends to put a large object in the center of the image.
“Ultima Thule” - I created the path based on his paths. In this one he has plants between the stones and wider spacing of them along the edges. I widened the space between the stones on the edge of my path.
“The flood-gate” - I used the shape of the stones in this work for the stones on my path.
“Bathyscaphe” - I used the contrasting blue colour from this work for some of my ribbons and used a similar straightish pencil line wood grain line for my drawers.
“AmokHarvest” - I studied his fields and tried to emulate the pencil like quality and style of them in this work with straightish visible lines of each stalk showing but only heads showing on top of a flatish colour as they recede into the background. I originally colour picked some of the colours from this work then changed them and used the colour replacement tool in Photoshop to recolour them using the colour chart provided.
“Mushroom’s Avenue, 2005” - He has used mushrooms so I made my towers, grain silos and strawberries mushroom up.
“The City is Landing” - I used his towers for the look of my silos and Towers. Many of his objects have a dark outline so I gave some of mine this look but toned it down in the final version.
“The room farm” I used the tree bark as a springboard for the pattern of bark on my trees, roots and branches.
“The summer” - I colour picked two reds from his strawberries and used them as a gradient for the first layer of my strawberries and used the idea of tall thin trees trunks.
“Orange grove” - I used his tree trunk for the tree pattern and placement of my trunks.
“Jealousy” - He has repeated the shape of clouds so I did too.
“Spring comes to the parish” - His cathedral window have a y shape that looks like two trees overlapping. I made my row of background tree branches overlap to produce another tree shape. The crossing of the branches produces a stained glass window, too small to notice unless you take a close up view. I used the y shape in the wings that the music produces and in the branches.
“The Strawberry Grove” - I framed the sky with leaves and would have liked to have hung the strawberries from the top but Jerka had already done that so I hung the music score to give an impression of the top of the crown. The strawberries become the full notes of the music and the jewels in the crown. Some of his works are framed at the top with trees, or leaves so I framed mine.
“The mystery garden” - I created a symmetric circular edge to my flat land being influenced by the circle in Jerka’s.
“The lion’s afternoon” - I used a similar colour and shape for some of my seeds and decided to add lion door knockers.
“The piano” - I colour picked the sand for my sand.
I used a 3D modeling program for the path and carpet and the drawers then recovered the drawers and some of the tower “hats” in Photoshop and applied filters. I used Flash for the lines of the wings and the flowing music “strings”. I used the bas relief filter for the lion’s main and created a bronze brush to use on the face. I used a seed head photo I had taken for the brush I created for the seeds and a photo of the ground to use as a brush for an overlay on the stones and sand. I used a piece of music I had created in Noteworthy Composer to create the music score.