With Dawn Comes Rejoicing

This is the next major piece I produced after Ikebana, and again I was concerned with developing the work from a single elegantly curved line. In "Dawn," as in Ikebana, I continued experimenting with longer, thinner strips of paper -- approximately 3mm x 30mm -- in contrast to my usual 10mm squares, although the application is different. 

The shapes and colors suggest to me daybreak in an alien setting.  In a sense, every dawn of a new day is the creation of a new world.  Sunrise brings promise, hope, exhilaration ... but also a sense of strangeness and the unknown. As usual, I had great difficulty in coming up with a title for this piece.  In the end I settled on part of a line from the Book of Psalms,  "At nightfall, weeping enters in, but with dawn comes rejoicing."

This work is made of de-acidified and buffered magazine pages on artist quality canvas board.  The surface is coated with a clear acrylic medium isolation layer topped with a conservation layer of UVLS polymer varnish for archival quality.  This work is sold unframed.  Framing under glass is recommended for further protection against fading.