PLENTY OF QUERIES!

This week I decided to try a new Monday challenge, Joey's Weekly Tangle Challenge #80.  I haven't tried this one before, and as it happened, she suggested a tangle I had never seen or heard of before, called Queeries (you can find it by going to her page at the above link). 

It's based on a question mark. 

I'm not sure how keen I am on this particular tangle, which is grid-based, but I was determined to try it.  I had to break it out of its grid, though, and then--I swear, the above photo really IS Queeries.  It's just my version of Queeries. I did not add any other tangles to it, since this challenge is supposed to be a monotangle...I just did line work around it and then shading.

I ended up thinking Queeries was pretty interesting, although I don't know how much I'll use it.  But then, that's why challenges exist. 

Next, I got out my iPhone and played with the tile using a couple of apps, with these results.  Here's a mirrored version from the mirror app...

...and here's a version of the original using the app "Painteresque:

I used a Rainbow Pencil to shade the original plain tile.  It never fails to amaze me how relaxing and focusing tangling is.  No matter what I'm thinking about when I begin, I forget everything once I begin to tangle.  It works every time.  So meditative.

I'm still fascinated with playing with iPhone apps on my tiles after I've finished because the results are so surprising.

At this moment, my own life is filled with queries about so many things.  I imagine that is true for a lot of us, not just me. 

Life loves to lead us to our own question marks.

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“He explained to me, with great insistence, that every question possessed a power that did not lie in the answer.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night