Post 8

This is my illustration for text piece for the last project. I used the Cheyenne creation story about how the world was built on the back of Grandmother turtle using a piece of clay retrieved from the bottom of the ocean by a small bird called a coot, after others such as the snow goose had failed. This story holds meaning for me because I really love the idea of world being alive. I tried not just to illustrate this but to give it energy through the use of lively patterns.

This is the text piece using an excerpt from the story reading "Let the earth be known as our Grandmother and let the Grandmother who carries the earth be the only being that is at home beneath the water or within the earth or above the ground, the only one who can go anywhere by swimming or walking as she chooses." I tried to make the words look like roots or plants in a way that you couldn't tell weather it was on land, be neath it or under the sea as it so states.

This is one of my weekly drawings that is a tatoo design for a friend.

This is another weekly drawing, where I just kind of let my mind wander and make what it pleases without purpose.

This a drawing that I'm in the process of working on about my anxieties toward sickness. I'v been relatively sick this semester and it's beginning to bring back memories of when I was younger and was ether always sick or in the hospital for major surgeries and was not often allowed to leave my house or go out side , save school if I was healthy enough to go.