His path is magic
Awake and Awakening
His soul slumbers on |
Ken's Square in the Quilt of Being
The square is supposed to reflect the person, their journey,
etc. I chose the Kanji character for "Ken", one of many,
which translates as investigate. It is meant to be literal
and introspective at the same time. Ken is an investigator,
but that's the red herring. The character represents that
he is embarking on his personal investigation of himself, the
Awakened world, and his place in it.
The "heart" reference has further significance. It
was mentioned prominently in his initial meeting with his
magical group.
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| Technical details - this image was accomplished by scanning
a black and white Kanji character from Henshal's "A Guide to
Remembering Japanese Characters", a decent book. It was
pulled into Adobe Photoshop 5.5. Excess black dots were
removed and the magic wand function was used to select and cut
the black kanji character. This was pasted onto a blank
canvas. The character was filled with a dark red/brown
color (RGB hexcode 280000), and the background black.
Both were given a "canvas" texture via the filters (settings
50% and 2). The letters were rendered in Lucida Handwriting
font in an off-white color and given a "canvas" texture (50%
and 5). This made for a very cool, fabric look, but it
also was a huge file. After using Adobe's built-in
"save for web" feature, I ended up with the above. |
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