Egg Scape

This image’s composition is inspired by a die where the number 5 has been rolled. However, beyond that it’s another artwork conceived in the spirit of the inside/outside theme that I have been working with. In this case, I have placed an image of a mountain scape on an egg and the title Egg Scape could also be read as “escape.” The idea being to escape the indoors and find one’s way outside. However, there are also four soap encrusted plugs serving as pips on the die…suggesting that escape may be another idea, “down the drain.” This escape from the inside theme is reinforced by the background image which is a backlit vacationing shirt…the kind one might wear on a cruise to somewhere hot. However, it’s not being worn and instead has been transformed into a decorative image of radial symmetry.
 
This time the Wingdings have been made larger so that they function more as part of the image rather than just as indecipherable writing. This is also the second image I have made that includes an egg. Eggs have interesting connotations when it comes to inside/outside. After all, there is a bird inside the egg and, presumably (at some point) it will want to eggscape  to the outside as well.