photograph by Mike Putnam
A beautiful image from Mike Putnam’s exploration of the Oregon back country lead me to explore a combination of shapes – leaves for the colorful maples and waves (sort of!) for the rushing river. The idea of using leaf shapes as the Xtra-Dimensional components was triggered by the thought that brilliant pictures of Fall colors are akin to digital images with leaves as pixels. Presented in sizes from 25-1/2” x 20-1/2” up to 50” x 40-1/2”.
Metolius River (50″ x 40-1/2″)


Detailed view:

As installed in client’s home:

For fun, I used blue Oranjeboom cans for the water components, as revealed by the picture of the reverse side:


