Spiral Islands

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

Spiral Islands, abstract art by Amy Crook

Spiral Islands by Amy Crook

This is actually the first piece I started with my salt-saturated solution, before adding the blue paint to the bottle. I was experimenting with the delivery, which is much less precise, trying to make spirals to go with the messy scribbled-pen spirals already on the page. You can see where they intersected, the salt water picked up the brown pigment from the black ink and left the rest behind, giving those pools an orange cast.

After I painted in the blue-black background, the whole thing reminded me of a cluster of islands in some turbulent ocean. I especially like how some of the salt spirals are nearly intact, while others are barely a suggestion of broken lines.

Spiral Islands, mixed media on paper.

Spiral Islands, detail 1, by Amy Crook

Spiral Islands, detail 1, by Amy Crook

Above, you can see a close-up of just one of the salt spirals and how it intersects with the ink spiral beneath it. The two separate pools got different amounts of ink infused into them, so the lower one is visibly orange while the upper curl is barely off white.

Below, I’ve taken a shot of the lay of the land, as it were, and this shining, mysterious little archipelago makes a great computer wallpaper.

Spiral Islands, detail 2, by Amy Crook

Spiral Islands, detail 2, by Amy Crook

Once it’s safely tucked into its frame, it feels even more map-like to me. Here there be dragons, I guess?

Spiral Islands, framed art by Amy Crook

Spiral Islands, framed art by Amy Crook

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