stitched paper, watercolour, silk thread, text written in pencil 30 x 24 inches (76 x 60 cm)
The planet you're standing on looking out at the stars is the earth, the third planet from the sun and the mildest and softest of the nine. Solid and rocky and heavy we think it is when actually it's as pale and lovely as a bubble. It floats in nothing with all of us on it shining like a bubble.
excerpt from Only a Little Planet by Lawrence Collins
Showed at Perivale Gallery, Spring Bay Manitoulin Island in 2022 and sold into private collection on the opening day.