So as part of the Costume Drama we have to record a video speaking about our work and concept. Scary stuff. Here is a bit of our words.
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Why a team?
Our team The Graces – goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity, and fertility, together known as the Graces. Part of the retinue of Aphrodite.
I paint the Spirit and Soul of what I see. – Brian Froud
Artist
To find an artist that represented the story we wanted tell with our piece was quite a endeavor. A story of summer nights and the embodiment of the forest as a magical being. Once we realized Brian Froud was our artist everything fell into place. His work has everything we were looking for depth of layers, texture and a otherworldly quality creating a reflective pool from which inspiration wells.
Work Notes
- Hand Stitching
- Dying
- Hand painting metal
- Bringing old and new together
Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the full moon sings its insistent song; when sorrow and passion and rage pulse through her body at moon times. This is why women are the chosen ones of Faerie, pat of the vibrant, fluid, emotional soul of the world… – Brian Froud
Key Concept Points
- Depth of layers
- the piece as a living object
- Organic
- Light withing the dark
- Summer night
- Texture
- The forest as a living being
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