Balla greatly influenced my main painting from my personal
study. I had photographed a dragonfly after a chance sighting, capturing the
dragonfly at exactly the right angle with just enough contrast and focus and
used this image in conjunction with a Balla image to create the effect of
movement of the dragonfly. Although Balla used machinery as his influence, I
decided to use the delicate dragonfly to show contrast and further illustrate
my theme of an influence of nature combined with industrial structure in art.
