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Inspire: Mirrored Calligraphy on Turquoise

A square image with a turquoise-to-aqua background covered in black curving line shapes that are mirrored left to right and repeat across the surface. Soft pale green and blue patches sit behind the lines. The word 'Inspire' is written in light aqua cursive with a dark outline across the lower center, and a small handwritten signature sits at the lower right.

A buyer wants this one because it is a saturated turquoise square, not a pastel, covered in crisp black ink-like curls that mirror left to right. The mirrored strokes make it read like a kaleidoscope, and the more you look the more faces, figures and vessels appear in the shapes. The pale aqua script word 'Inspire' across the lower third gives it a clear message, so it works as pattern art and as word art in one image. Most turquoise abstracts have no line work and most word art has no pattern. This has both.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski