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SciFi and Fantasy Art: Rikki tikki tavi meets Beauty and the BeastI'll be entering into an independent semester of lithography coming this august 07 at ISU. I feel that the theme of my work will be altered folktales. I want to play around with switching gender roles and ethnicities of traditional characters. I currently have a fascination for the 'Arabian Nights' feel of things--which page by page tended to be as corrupt and morally vague as the unabridged Grimm's fairy tales. As comparable texts, my greatest challenge will to be able to include an explanation of the hodge-podge scene within the piece itself as many of my pictures are unable to explain visually. Rightly so I feel--pictures born of text should be dependent on text.
Rikki Tikki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling is a story many of us read in 4th grade or so. It is the story of a young mongoose who is adopted by a family. Mongoose are known for their ability to hunt and kill cobras, and Rikki Tikki Tavi, the young mongoose saves his adopted family from a pair of cobras that move into the garden.
In this picture I have Beauty reaching into the darkness to save the beast from what ultimately is his own self despair. The background is of toner and I felt it looked rather serpent-like so I have Beauty's companions in the form of mongoose instead of a candelabra or mantle clock to fend off the snakes. | |
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Techniques: [Black Ink] [Oil Paint] [Other]
Inspirations: [Other Author]
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