Zedist Elephant | Open Edition Print lanscape A zen poem

A zen poem

Glowing white and smooth and round

along with the bees and frogs

I began searching for an image that would lend itself to being mapped on top of my new “virtual” surface and came upon a rather spirited elephant with ears fanned out and its trunk erect

Getting kind of dizzy and disoriented and facing the possibility of extinction

Zedist Elephant | Open Edition Print lanscape A zen poemThis 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