Mixed Media Encaustic Collage
Many months ago Susan Biebeck at Studio B handed me a 20 x 20 canvas urging me to make a piece for an exhibit called “Studio B on the Road,” which opens tomorrow night, January 12, 2018, at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts.
About the time I got down to working on the challenge I finished reading The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, by Peter Frankopan, which concluded with the assertion that the Silk Roads are rising again as a pivotal force in the world. Included in this piece is the phrase “The Silk Roads are Rising” in several of the languages spoken in the countries in the area.
Featured are pictures of Chinese oil rigs, Chinese electric cars, the Erbil Rotana Hotel – the world’s priciest hotel – in Erbil the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. The centerpiece is a reproduction of Heinrich Von Diez Albums 1258 illustration of “The Conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols.”
