Silence
8.3 x 11.7″
Coloured pencils
Working on focusing imagery from my Red, Red Rose story, based on the story and legend of Bluebeard by Charles Perrault and Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, and concepts through symbolism and visual narrative to create a kind of focal point for the improved version of my Disenchanted Fairy Tales piece. The stylised zine aesthetic and pulp culture surrounding it seems more suited to the reappropriated an reworked narratives in my work and the context of the subversive dialogue they’re engaging with in manipulating the projected restrictions of gender, sexuality aesthetic ideals and autonomy.
This will be potentially the cover piece for the new zine, as with some of the colour problems with printing my last booklet, and more in keeping with the zine aesthetic in general, I think it would be more effective to use limited, restricted colours of black, white and red inside.
Rebecca Elysium 