Alien landscape

 

Alien landscape.

This page started with the green gelli-printed tissue paper and then the brown sweep across the middle. The space over to the right was just crying out for a tree, and once the tree was on there, I wanted a 'sun'. But the background was yellow and I wanted a splash of blue on there, so why not a blue 'sun'? Then of course it was an alien landscape.

Even though all the colours are not the usual ones, we still read it as a landscape. Even though the tree doesn't have the usual branch form, it still reads as a tree. This made me think about people who have different cultures from our own, or who have lived very different lives from ours, or whose bodies are different from our own. Even though our histories and backgrounds, shapes and sizes, are very different, we still have a lot in common. Their lives may be alien to us, but there are still many things that we can relate to. They are not so 'alien' as we might think.