If you want to know a bit more about the image, well, it's a kind of e-sketch for something I'm working on artistically currently. What's coming together in thinking about the image are several things.
One of these is eikons -or icons- which for me are about conveying a theological 'something' to those who view (which is not the same as eastern Orthodox approaches to iconography where the most important thing is a sacramentality -they are to convey and mediate spiritual presence and encounter). In this case I'm interested in theological motifs such as seeing Mary as a live temple of the Presence; considering Mary as the representative of all creation in forming the body of the Incarnate (hence the globe); affirming the blessing of God in Christ.
Another of the contributory thoughts is also drawing on a traditional rendering of eikons where part of the eikon is highly decorated and overlays the painted board underneath to act as a kind of frame for the main person depicted. In this case that development gives rise to the idea of an eikon within an eikon: the depiction of Mary is the 'framing' eikon for the Christ-embryon -hence the 'window' into the womb. The window is in the form of a sonogram as a relatively contemporary expression of such a 'window'.
I have posted a similar (precursor) image before but this one has been further worked on: the halo behind Mary's head has been completed and the background has been extended to the whole background and worked to be reminiscent of Van Gogh's starry night picture.
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