Inspired by a poem by Derek Walcott
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Background paper: Mint Blizzard Artplay Palette **classic release sale, coming soon**
Bird: Multimedia Birds #2 **coming Friday**
WordART: Gather Word Art Mix No. 2 **coming Friday**
Mat behind selfie: Artsy Paint #10 https://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtsyPaint-No.-10.html
Artstroke: Autumn Rust Artplay Palette https://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Autumn-Rust.html
Button: Believe Artplay Palette https://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Believe.html
Background for Text: Different Strokes #5 brush (retired)
Notes in Photoshop Elements 14:
This is what I did:
Altered the selfie with the posterize filter
Stamped on gray paint for mat and positioned selfie
Added brush as background for text
Created text path on brush and typed the poem
Added background paper and distressed it with a layer of old sheet music blended on linear burn
Added bird and wordART
Added artstroke and button
