the beginning was in her imagination

“First comes thought;

then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans;

then transformation of those plans into reality.

The beginning,

as you will observe,

is in your imagination.”

~ Napoleon Hill ~

 

I love the process of creativity and how things evolve, sometimes just from an e-mail . . .

which is how this all came about, in a way!

 

Years ago I had written the word *dragonflies* in brush lettering on rice paper.

Yesterday I received an e-mail from an artist friend/printmaker who attached a beautiful, calligraphic brush stroke. Today I was looking through my papers in preparation for creating a wedding guest book.

 

Came across this oldie and scanned it into my computer. Next I opened up two different photographs on my desktop in photoshop . . . one of the leaf-covered skylight in our bedroom during the morning of Hurricane Irene . . . the other of a rusty gate from a garden center. Then I imported the flattened piece into Picnik and came across yet another filter which I tweaked into difference while rotating and reversing the effects. Voilá!

 

Enjoy! It's wild on black (push L)!

Done