October 13, 2015
The Sirius radio in our car was playing ‘The Fool on the
Hill’ and my husband said that I should do that song. I have always been fascinated by medieval
fools. [If you want an amazing mystery
about a modern fool, read To Play the Fool by Laurie King, 1995, loved
that book!] So I decided to make an
image of a fool. His hill is very tall
and steep and looks rather foolish.
While the work was in progress my husband remarked that I needed to
change it to a realistic looking hill because it looked as though he were
standing on “a big green gumdrop.”
Showing other people work in progress is a two-edged sword; sometimes
they have good suggestions but often the comments just make you wish you had
never shown them anything. I knew that I
had to add a sense of magic and mystery to the fool on the hill so I added
stars. There are lots of stars, in
different sizes, all over the hill. And
there are stars in the air—are they coming into the fool’s hand or is he
dispersing them into the sky?
