Research for Fish Story
Detail of "River View #1," for Fish Story for Memphis Social, 13'x19" encaustic on paper |
I used a combination of Phthalo blue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalocyanine_Blue_BNand metallic gold pigment to reflect how I think we have already chemically polluted our waters and what is driving that pollution, greed. In the upper left, where the Wolf should connect with the Mississippi, the effects blur, because the Army Corps of Engineer diverted the river to create a Peninsula http://tn-roots.com/tnshelby/history/mud_island.htm