Submitted to the "This Homeland" competition

I submitted the following image to the "This Homeland" competition, to have it exhibited in London hospitals. I submitted it as a joint entry between myself and Roz, as it uses her scan and is inspired by her work:

I created it especially, but it was a good excuse to play with the 3d scan, as discussed previously. I also created the following writing, as required, on the subject "This Homeland":

How can we know you so well, and yet so little? You stride, filled with glorious pride, and skulk heavy with shameful secrets. You pit and burn in the words of the fanatic, yet give quiet strength, hope, and resolve to the repressed. You fling your arms wide, fingering the knobbled barrows in the chalk, exploring the ancient rough-granite-lined tunnels of unfathomable purpose. You caress the weathered concrete of the inner-city tower block’s peak, brush the gleaming golden dome of the suburban mosque, tease out the spring leaves, linger in the hot exhaust of the crematorium. You fill, heavy but comforting, the heart of the old woman mulching in a care home, rest lightly on the brows of the children lost in the games of the school playground. You touch, and ring, and resound, and glow, and before we really know you, we are gone.

I very nearly submitted a much more stylised version:

But after a lot of swirling, decided I actually liked the colour version more, and that it was a better fit for people in hospital. I might print myself a postcard-sized copy of the image anyhow, as I really like it!