The 3 Faces of Mother Earth painting is from wood grain.  Here’s the wood grain that inspired me:

Perhaps it doesn’t look like much, but here’s who was hiding in amongst the woodgrain:

The painting is named The 3 Faces of Mother Earth for a particular reason – from halfway across the room she looks pleasant, when you get a little closer, she looks contemplative and from up-close, she looks sad.

It is very fitting for Mother Earth to have all three visages, don’t you think?

The shot above is the “Pleasant” face, below you can see “Contemplative” and “Sad”…

Here’s “Sad” – it’s a little blurry up so close but you can still see the sadness.  Honestly, up close she looks like she is about to cry.

I thought that it was fitting to call her Mother Earth because of the visages.  I think if our Mother Earh could have a face to display her feelings that she would have the three here.

Pleasant = what a beautiful planet we have.

Contemplative = contemplating the present scene, wondering how it could have gone so wrong.

Sad = seeing the pollution, the death of the bees, the Genetically Modified Organisms poisoning the planet, the destruction of the oceans with oil spills and chemicals...

I think it's fitting that Mother Earth is an American Indian, too. After-all, it was the American Indians that tried to teach us the ancient wisdom for caring for our earth.