Space: A Senior Explorations Amplified Piece by Annamari Jaaksi (2014)

The main idea behind my piece ''Space'' is to remind the viewer that sometimes it is good to take a step back and look at the big picture. People usually want to be right where things are happening, but that limits us to just a little portion of the truth. To really understand the situation, or to make the right decision we sometimes have to take a step back. The prompt for this assignment was to create something relating to Kurt Vonnegut's quote ''I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.''

I used acrylic paint to paint the planets and stars, which I then scanned and moved into Adobe Photoshop. At the bottom you can see a picture I took with a Nikon D80 camera. I used a custom font and a Photoshop plugin to add visual interest to the piece, and the text ties the picture and painting together.