project 3 : illustration 1: what’s missing/if you touch the walls, the water comes through

Create an illustration in response to the State of the Union. Consider what you have declared/discovered about yourself and your identity as an illustrator. You may have uncovered areas or subjects that are very important to you but which are not represented in your portfolio. This piece can be the first attempt to remedy that. Subject, technique, size, and format are open. Critiqued 9/8, due 9/15.

i felt as if i needed to stretch myself to make a piece that is more personal & philosophical, executed at a larger scale.
my initial ideation:

left side was notes from a liberal studies class, the human & the divine, but applies to my topic well enough to be included. 
--if this is unclear, i was considering a rather cynical & wild-eyed illustration of some (too many) of the theories i like best of what i've studied of comparative mythology.


halfway through thinking it over, i remembered a dream i had written down almost two years ago, after falling asleep every night for a week listening to joseph campbell lectures.

i had the idea of my piece (not "larger than half my body!" but 22"x 15", still very big for me, & large for a watercolor painting.)  as a garden of eden scene, perhaps a veiled one. but finding this recount, i think the image could act as an illustration to the dream. if i execute it well it would be something i'd like to keep, as a handmade piece of my jungian "personal myth".  i would have to clean it up a bit, but i think the imagery is something i can work with.