I don't know how many cells are in this now. I know there are at least 2,000, so I'm going to go ahead and say it's more than half done. Obviously my original goal of finishing it by the end of February was unrealistic. Oh, well.... I guess we'll shoot for the end of March.
The best part of this stage of the picture is that all the decisions have been made. From here it's more or less just filling in the blank areas, carrying the rhythms and echoes and patterns to where they need to go.
This picture is like other blossom pictures in the respect that turning the sheet 90 degrees at a time causes the cells in various parts of the picture to pronounce themselves differently. They go from flat to dimensional and back again. It frustrates me that it does that, but later, when the picture is finished, I'll be the only one who will ever look at it and realize that's what it does.
This will be one of those pictures about which I'm ambivalent when it comes to the "best" way to mount it. The way you see it in the photo is the orientation I've meant for it since I started it, but I know I could turn the thing 90 or 180 degrees and no one would know it wasn't intended to be seen that way.
Okay, then, back to plodding along.
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