Art: New Year 2024
Circles so many circles.
It’s an election year, of course. And a leap year. The big political questions include:
- Will Congress finally pass a border bill that sends funds to protect the Ukrainian border?
- Who will be the Republican nominee and will that nominee be convicted of crimes in one or more jurisdictions?
- Will Democrats articulate a national strategy on restoring abortion rights and health protections for pregnant people?
Of course, who will win the various elections?
We’ll just have to wait and see.
I made the main image of circles in Inkscape, and added the backing and framing stuff with Krita. There was some question about when to stop making smaller circles, which I mostly left up to when the numerals looked well-formed.
Interestingly, the final webp is smaller than the svg, at least when saved with whatever extra data Inkscape stores. I know not everyone likes webp, but I really appreciate how much it can pack into a small file (depending; for some images, it is hard to get it to shrink so much).
Happy new year!