Coast

© 2006, Michael O'Rourke

   
 

A dense swirling image that combines photographs of the seacoast, rock formations, vegetation, and people, along with drawing, handwritten text, and an image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The colors and forms of the various elements echo one another, linking them together -- the orange of the nebulae and the orange of a woman's hair; the sienna-red of another shirt and of some pine cones; the curve of blond hair flowing into the curve of the nebulae. The script, some of which is backwards or mirrored, reads "coast" and "tide pool".

This limited-edition is printed archivally on Hahnemuhle paper with Epson Ultrachrome K3 inks in an edition of 30 signed prints.