Images for book pages 3-11: Introduction, Floating on inner seas, A story in words + pictures, and Floating colors process

All drawings are by Laura unless noted
Media for drawings, unless otherwise noted: oil paints with bronze powders (for floating colors); charcoal and charcoal pencil, pastel and pastel pencil (for overlaid drawing).

All drawings are on paper; the names of the papers are given whenever possible. Archival inkjet prints are on Epson or Hahnemuhle fine art papers.

Back to The Consciousness of the body
https://www.lauraferguson.net/consciousness-book-2025

Back, viewed from above, 12.25 x 10 in. on Linorg paper, 2003

Blue water, 14 x 18.5 in., oil paints with bronze powders on Fabriano, 1993

floating colors process

4 photos of the floating colors process, screenshots from “Laura Ferguson, Visualizing Inner Space,” video by Peter Barton [see Reference list]

Bluegrey stretching figure

9.5 x 12.5 in. on Bergerac paper, 2000

Close couple, 1994

10.5 x 8.875 in., Moulin du Verger

garden of the faun, Pompeii

photo from Wilhelmina Jashemski, The Gardens of Pompeii, 1979

Garden of the faun

collage with inks and gouache, c.1983

Shadowy red form

8.5 x 5.375 in., 1993

Shaped form

8.75 x 5.75 in., Kozo, 1993

Twisting form (blue)

23.75 x 17.75 in., Kaji, 1993

floating colors paper for Blue breasts/hands

10.25 x 8 in., Moulin de Fleurac Versailles

Blue breasts/hands

10.25 x 8 in., Moulin de Fleurac Versailles, 1998

Dark garden

12 x 9 in., Dieu Donné Li Tao Po, 1994