Continuing with my virtual travels... I have been using colour, google maps and other tools to determine cultural or geographical locations to visit. These works are becoming small mementos to those virtual journeys – travelling around the world in one hundred abstracts...
I have selected these five abstracts as part of my wall exhibit for the SOS exhibition next week... From left to right: kokoda, siam, maroc, cretan and suomi... all are hand-coloured intaglio collagraphs on paper on canvas...Another 'one hundred' has been partly inspired or perhaps just consolidated by the first chapter of the series, A history of the World in One Hundred Objects - fascinating, as it is a radio programme, and so naturally conjures up images that may be quite different to the reality.
maroc, 2010Some images to illustrate - too travel-weary to articulate much in words...
terraced fields and trees - Moroccan landscape...
Marrakech market place - Moroccan souk...
wall and door, MarrakechI would quite like to visit Morocco one day - but musn't grumble, things could be worse, when one door closes...