11 x 14, water color and thin sharpie

Through the world there is a certain understanding that we all have, and this is feelings. Being grounded is so important, but the book flips groundedness with noting that your feet stand on the sky. To me this was a cool concept because we walk through life saying that the sky is the limit but we are already there, so we must reach beyond the sky. It shows how we interact with the sky every day and that we are touching it and it in turn touches us.

“Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. We walk through it, yell into it, rake leaves, wash the dog, and drive cars in it. We breathe it deep within us. With every breath, we inhale millions of molecules of sky, heat them briefly, and then exhale them back into the world.”

― Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses

11 x 14, Water color and calligraphy pen

The world is an interesting place, full of interesting people, and in A Natural History of the Senses words are a huge part of how we interact with the world around us. There are ways in which words can touch people's lives, and because there are different languages are are also different meanings through words. With this piece I wanted it to be chaotic but still fit together like a puzzle, and then I added the watercolor so that you could clearly see the shapes of the continents, and it would make more sense.

“Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.”
― Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses