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Cindy Bernard, Topography: Dry Head Agate #9

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Inspired by a Stone
Picture Stones
Picture stones


Cindy Bernard has written that she got the idea for this artwork from "picture stones," rocks whose natural colors and patterns resemble figures, animals, or landscapes.

Agates

She took a close-up photograph of the surface of a small agate. The stone was about the size of your thumb, and the picture she found in the colored markings was even tinier. She scanned the photograph of the agate into a computer and used a topological computer program to create a virtual landscape based on the light and dark areas of the photograph. She then manipulated the new image to give it three-dimensionality. Finally, she printed the resulting image as a color photograph.

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