to Encourage the Warmth of Christmas
“Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as Opening Our Hearts” - Janice Maeditere
Sn0wflake Christmas
a mixture of Kryptic Art and Optical Illusion, combined to create a design, taking a quote by Janice Maeditere, created to Encourage the Warmth of Christmas. This is iLLusional designs. Cryptic Art that includes inspirational quote / messages hidden within another layer of art, concealed with the techniques of Optical Illusion.
As Thomas S. Monson once said, “The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.” So we should remember that it is important for us to not focus on the gifts that we are receiving, but to things which are more long lasting. And that our time, our kindness, our attention will always be the greatest value we could give to someone else.
It is from this that I was inspired to work on a design left behind by last year’s concept. I finally had the courage to attempt to make it a reality. The purpose of this design has always been to hide my optical illusion message within the chaos of the collage of snowflakes. I could have used snowflakes from free vector sites and jpegs all over the internet, but I thought it would be more fun to reach out to the art community and find artists to collaborate with. I wanted to share good energy and some holiday spirit with the artists that allowed me to use their past work. I ended up taking their different snowflakes and made a collage of different shapes and sizes and hiding my quote within 2 of the flakes. This particular piece takes the quote from the famous Janice Maeditere, reading “Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts”.
A big thank you goes to @bexicorn.art @petrichorblue_prints @mollybarata @swayingletters @kimjones.art @artsy.invasian @eliallison_author @mybfillustration @lizthelazycat @wickedsaltyink and @taylor_studio_arts
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