This is the second in the series I'm doing about wild children in fairy tales. This one is based on the many versions and themes of "Hansel and Grethel" in combination with "Big Brother and Little Sister". The themes I'm dealing with in this piece a little hard for me to explain, as its not really clear cut for me either. I really wanted to show the "journey" idea with a path through a forest- for me, a symbol of solitary development, like a place thats just outside of society and you can grow and change in on your own terms. In the story "Big Brother and Little Sister", which is related to Hansel and Grethel, big brother turns into a deer and lives with little sister in the forest happily. serie
I'm still torn between calling the series "wild children" and "Waldeinsamkeit" (German for "the feeling of being alone in the woods"), because although I started out thinking I was just going to present those children who spent time in the forest and changed somehow, making them "wild" (such as in LRRH, she meets the wolf and learns a lesson, usually either escaping the wolf with her new knowledge, and again in "Hansel and Gretel", where they are both tested by not only their predicament with the witch, but their own family), I've come to think its not really that. I think that whats more important in these stories is their loneliness in the forest, because without them taking up their journey's by them selves, without protection, the stories would have never progressed, and they in fact would have never grown. I'm continually thinking about how to expand on this concept with sculpture and installation, and I'd really appreciate questions/comments/interpretations/discussion on these ideas!

more descrip. later lol

Acrylic and artstix on Paper, something like 3 ft X 4 ft

20+ hours

-Spikie :heart: