Cindy Bernard has written that she got the idea for this artwork
from "picture stones," rocks whose natural colors and
patterns resemble figures, animals, or landscapes.
She took a close-up photograph of the surface of a small agate. The
stone was about the size of your thumb, and the picture she found
in the colored markings was even tinier. She scanned the photograph
of the agate into a computer and used a topological computer program
to create a virtual landscape based on the light and dark areas of
the photograph. She then manipulated the new image to give it three-dimensionality.
Finally, she printed the resulting image as a color photograph.
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