Today we bring you not one, but TWO prints – Green Zen I + II, by Andrea D’Aquino. According to Andrea, “the prints were inspired by Gustav Klimt, Tibetan sculptures of Buddha, and medieval European religious paintings. Interestingly, the hands are very similar in both and seem to suggest higher knowledge or inner peace in both cultures.”

We love the way that the two images interact with each other – abstract versus illustrative, textured versus simple. We imagine that one print is of the woman, and the other print is of the inner woman. Both prints were signed and numbered by the artist. They are digital prints on Hahnemühle Fine Art archival paper.

15% of the sale of these prints goes to The Shama Foundation, a non-profit providing in-country educational opportunities for children of the African island nation of Madagascar. It does so with the confidence that a good level of education within a country reaches beyond individuals and touches the nation as a whole.

Buy the prints here and read our interview with Andrea here.

The Big Picture has a set of photos of the Shanghai World Expo 2010, which opened last week to much fanfare. The scale of the expo pavillions was not quite communicated in the renderings that were floating around last year. The photos are of the exterior and interior of the UK Pavillion, aka the “Seed Cathedral”. The thing is humongous.

I was reminded of Natsko Seki’s beautiful “Four Seasons” illustrations by Man Make Home. My favorite is the Summer illustration, but I couldn’t find a high-res version of it online, so I settled for Spring, instead. But they are all gorgeous, as is the rest of Natsko’s work.