That is a very bizarre composition, Frances, and I LOVE it!
By the way, you can use some of the textures, past and present, to make spheres with textures that conform to the curvature of the sphere by:
1. Use the Mould tool in Encelope mode and use the Circular setting.
2. Then use the Live Effect>Deformation>Fisheye lens.
It seems to take two applications of distortion to actually get a pattern to bulge at the centre and recede at the edges.. File's attached.
My Best,
Gary
P.S. I didn't bother to make the check pattern into a bitmap, the but steps will work with a group of vectors or bitmaps images.
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