Patchwork Stone Golem Cradling a Village

A seated stone golem fills the middle of the picture, its purple head bowed, its eyes a glowing turquoise. Its shoulders are blue, its chest yellow and orange, its arms green and its knees pink, every plate carved with swirling fingerprint spirals. A castle stands on its brow beside a flowering tree, and purple and yellow mushrooms grow from one shoulder. A stair winds up the left arm, a hamlet with a mushroom roof sits on the right shoulder, and vines climb the forearms. An open market with striped awnings fills a hollow in its belly. In its cupped hands rests a small town square with a church tower and a crowd. Around the golem stretch tiled rooftops, domes, spires and bridges. Each coloured plate of the golem holds its own little scene, so the picture splits neatly into pieces that sit where they belong.