I took the dandelion photos that are the core of this piece in 2006, with the intention to make pretty much exactly this piece (it was the height of the “Space Whimsy” period in my sketchbook). Why it has taken 3 years, I don’t know; it certainly isn’t the piece that I sat down to work on tonight in my chunk of free time.
There will probably be some tweaks in the printing stage, and I may still decide to swap out the digitally rendered grass for real grass, but for now, I will not touch it further, less it decides (like every other piece I’ve touched tonight) that it wants to be something hard and profound instead of sweetly silly and content:
