Favourite Places~ gudrun

I was flummoxed by the plural in this challenge. I 'read' the challenge word favourite to mean my favourite, but I had trouble with places. In a two dimensional small fibre art piece how do I depict places . A single place is easy enough. I did not come with any ideas that covered 'places'...... however there is a common factor in all of the places I consider favourite. So that is how I came to this....

All my favourite places have water and trees. I spend a lot of time on Georgian Bay, Lake Huron....and even when I am not on the Bay you can bet I am near water, or under a tree...usually both.

This is my first finished attempt at thread painting, operative word being 'finished'. My list friend Shirley is instrumental in my continuing with thread painting. All I need do for encouragement and inspiration is look at her work.

Four Elements

Artist's Statement, I spent more time reading various philosophies based on the four earthly elements, than I did creating my interpretation.

4 elements

I kept coming back to a philosophy that equates air with thought, fire with passion water with serenity and earth as maturity. Musings: fire does not pass through water, fire is reflected in water, thought feeds passion passion falters with serenity thought is in serenity, thought slows and then, no more.

Loose threads, attached with help of wash-away interfacing. on a snippet style background. I too had difficulty with the photographing, what doesn't show well here is the yellow thread 'of air' running through the piece gudrun