Groundless: Original Light Painting
@thecakelin✨️ Groundless, 2022: watercolors, pen, markers, needle hole stipling, origami, glue, fairy lights
SIZE: 11" x 14" (W x H )
This piece can be hung upside down, when lighted the most dynamically alive aspects (hedgehog and lizard inside the mushroom) are darkest. Groundlessness is a Buddhist concept about letting go of certainty. How can we be upside down in the dark and still be held?
Image Description
Mushroom with an upside down hedgehog hanging underneath it. There is a potion embedded inside the top of the mushroom. The top also has dragon spots, a mouth and lizard tongue. The stem of the mushroom is a ladder out of spider webs that turns into a curly tail. Space elements in background, string of lights added to the back of the painting with holes poked so the light glows through it.