Zedist Elephant | Open Edition Print lanscape tessellations

tessellations

I think the piece elegantly illustrates how we are all part of the same ecosystem

Its subtle shifts in pinks work well with the natural shifts required by the morphology

A very thin isthmus separates two coves

The sun is shining on her lower left glute

Zedist Elephant | Open Edition Print lanscape tessellationsThis was the first true Zedist piece I created and deserves special mention. I got the idea of combining textured surfaces with other realistic images by looking at a dry lake bed in the Southern California desert. All of the mud was curling up and separated into organized shapes and patterns, giving the surface a broken, three dimensional texture. I made a series of paintings using pieces of cut up sheet metal (shown here) that were bent into curled