My initial idea was to do an image using a photo of some of my colorful tumbled stones. I'm a bit of a geologist and have a large collection of rocks. I took a photo of a bunch of them laid out.
Then played around with them.
None felt quite right to me.
I played around with various photos.
Then I came across some photos I took of 1,000 paper cranes made by elementary students. It's a photo that I've tried to turn into a textile design before trying to make it a repeating pattern, but was never happy with the result. The details are just to hard to see.
But when I turned it into a Kaleidoscoping image, I loved it! I came up with a few different variations.
In the end, I picked this one.
The brighter colors attracted me to it. Here is a photo of it as wallpaper. It looks like a beautiful and intricate mosaic.
This is a close up image of the design.