Peace Tree #Calendars 2012

I have been toying with a gazillion ideas for the calendar but seeing as the time is short, I am focusing on one theme only for 2012 calendars. Around this time last year, I had written something down while painting a calendar for my room.

It went like this (I have edited it one year forward for 2012):

"The world, as we knew it ended with 2011.


This year,

There will be more trees
There will be more peace
There will be honest sweat glistening off fields and offices,
There will be unlearning of redundancy and blind dogma
And then some new learning of life and living.

The world will not end in 2012.
But it will be reborn."


I am still not sure if I will create a design that incorporates the entire text because honestly, sometimes it feels uninspiring and something that you just say without really meaning it. But while I was sketching for the first two lines, I had made, what I call "Peace Tree" that looks like this:



So while I continue to mull over the original idea (that I had named 2012- "This Year"), I am painting a Peace Tree Calendar 2012. Also, I don't like the fact that calendars have a short life and at the end of the year that they are designed for, they are discarded.

So I have plan to have a perforated break between the dates and the painting like this:



The idea is that at the end of the year, the painting bit can be separated from the rest of the calendar, framed (or not) and put up somewhere, like other posters and paintings.