Diaspora

Julie Devine, Diaspora, 2012
Oil on Canvas, 48" x 24"

For this painting, I used source photographs taken of the forest canopy in Discovery Park, Seattle. The colors are exaggerated.

Diaspora is layered on top of a painting I did a while back - an abstract master copy of  The Abduction of Ganymede. It's a fantastic feeling to cover an earlier work that has served its purpose, and to let little pieces of it guide design decisions in the new painting. In a few places, the earlier painting is still visible.