For today, and the next few
days, I’ll be working in cut paper. I started with the simple shape of the
penis/testicle combination. I cut out several copies of the same shape all at
one time, then glued them down on various pages in varies way, using the leftover
sheets as stencils, gluing THEM down as well.
In
today’s image, I let myself be inspired by the close-up photograph of the coral
reefs in the US Virgin Islands. Combining the penis/testicle shapes in this
manner reminded me of a hydra, which seems like the kind of thing one might
come across in a coral reef. Also, the “flowers” emerging from the coral
reminded me vaguely of the male and female symbols. It seemed appropriate to
draw white lines between the two circular “eyehole” shapes with Prismacolors.
