continuing work in progress- Method to my madness

Hi. To continue, Here’s a photo of the Escher print I was thinking about.

First, after deciding that the distorted photo on the center wouldn’t work, I wanted to get a picture of a hand holding something that would reflect. I did not have a mirror finish globe, but I did have a fish eye mirror, which unfortunately was not round. Anyway,  here’s what happened with that idea:  

 

Here is the quilt in progress. I just did some thread painting today and quilted it somewhat. I still need to quilt the background more.

this photo was taken without the quilting: