--This is not one of my details, this is from the cover of a book about botanical illustrations called "Eden". --Another source I've been looking at as a possible model for my project proposal is a section of 19th century French wallpaper (landscape panorama) also called "Eden". This landscape is different from most of the other French wallpaper in the book I have on the subject, in that it is unpeopled. The viewer becomes the sole inhabitant of "eden". We wouldn't want to share Eden with anybody, unless it was Eve, (or Adam).
--In what way is painting an attempt to recreate this world and reclaim eden? "Eden" means something different for every artist.
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And, speaking of wallpaper, here's an "off the wall" aside regarding the French wallpaper.
The story goes that more than a hundred years ago, an auto executive (though they likely weren't called that then) came home after a trip to France with something he saw on the wallpaper in his hotel room; it sort of looked like a bow tie. And, some car wonks still call it that: it became the Chevrolet logo.
Your idea may have a great future.
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