Over the past year, Carol Francisco has been producing an incredible series of new digital collage artwork by finding and releasing images already present in the ancient stone of New Mexico. We couldn't believe our eyes when she first showed us what she found there, but it really is there, in the stone, just as she shows it to you in her work. She's sharing a number of images here at one time, for your enjoyment and inspiration. Many are available for purchase online at Earth Mosaics.
About the frontspiece for this issue [PDF version - see below] of The LOOM (page 1),
BUFFALO WINTER, Carol writes: "A lone buffalo stands with head down against a storm of blowing snow. The buffalo is a stone image photographed in the bedrock of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico, entirely unedited except for removing her from the photograph. The snow patterns behind the buffalo and partially obscuring her on the foreground plane are taken from close-up images of individual stones in the Pecos River valley."
About KING STAG (below), she writes: The shape of a great stag discovered in living rock stands at this picture’s heart, unedited except for removing it from the photo of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains bedrock and adjusting contrast and color. The background
is a mosaic of hundreds of tiny images from medieval paintings. Such a stag can touch the solstice mystery surrounding the birth of the sacred masculine, and the springs of life that flow from his appearing.
The figures of STONE DANCE (below) are from the same source. The brilliant night is composed of hundreds of tiny images from medieval paintings and crystalline stone structures.
Winter Solstice 2008
