A couple walks down a dimly lit street under a bright yellow umbrella, surrounded by towering buildings and streetlights casting eerie glows...

In my post yesterday, I introduced you to a new piece of art inspired by a poem by Laura Ann Reed. Today another, new version that, much more than the image that rose like a lightning bolt I showed yesterday, is a representation of the poem.

Unfortunately, I can't let you read the poem here. In the world of poetry, it is common for (online) literary magazines, to post submitted work only if it has never been published before.

So you'll have to make do with this description:

A dark evening in a city where it is raining briskly. The street is almost deserted, shopkeepers have just turned out the lights and closed their stores. Two people are walking down the street talking and laughing under a yellow umbrella. I feel a strange desire to know what the two are laughing about....

'The Yellow Umbrella' is a new artwork in my collection 'Lost Cities'.

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General info on this artwork

The artwork 'The Yellow Umbrella' is a digital transformation of two photographs. Printed on order with high-quality ink on museum-quality, acid-free cotton/rag paper (Hahnemühle Photo Rag® 308gsm). The work comes in a limited edition of 5, signed and with a certificate of authenticity.
But of course, it is also available as Open Edition print, without signature and not numbered. Prices starting at €55 / US$60. Available in any size you desire !

Maximum size is 150x150H cm / 60Wx60H inches, any size available up to that maximum. So please let me know the size you would prefer.

I start with one or more photographs made by myself to create these digital artworks. Then I use digital painting, color adjusting and adding and transforming multiple artistic textures and effects. I do this until there is a surreal atmosphere that touches me and tells the story I want to tell you.

And prints are available, contact me for a quote including shipping costs. Also available in my portfolio at the Saatchi Art artwork page and at Fine Art America.

ALL WE NEED IS LESS CONSUMING

Through my artworks I ask you to reflect for a moment on the nature around you, on the beautiful feeling that nature can evoke. Thus to think about your actions to support the wellbeing of the earth and everything that lives on it. And on what humanity loses when many of us continue on the destructive path of ever more greed and consuming. And please, reflect on how you can survive in this rapidly changing world…

So do you want to know your ecological footprint? 

Then visit this website: https://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en 

And do you want to reduce your ecological footprint?

Then ask me, I will help you. For free. Or simply visit my website and choose in the menu for Your Footprint.

And if you appreciate my writings and art and want to support me, you can buy me a piece of fruit here: https://ko-fi.com/jacobberghoef, thank you 🍏 !

So are you interested in more? Then read what I wrote about System Change, Man's impact on the earth, Organic Change, Regenerative Agriculture, Regeneration