'Dream of a Card Queen'

'Dream of a Card Queen' was a small summer project I did myself over the summer break.

It's about a girl who finds a secret book in a secret box in her back garden when she is a young girl,  The girl read the story a lot but stopped as she got older, the secret box along with the book is forgotten about until she turns into a young woman where strange things happen, she begins to see things or imagine them and her life begins the story within the book.  The story was written by the Card Queen herself who is trapped in a spell and the only way it can be broken is by the person who finds the book!

I had hoped for a better outcome as I was limited to location, props and quality of camera, but I like to see it as a learning curve and experimental play for future projects.  If I had the chance to revisit a project similar to this I would look to source a more suitable location, source better props, build more of a narrative and maybe introduce film.

Below are some of the photographs I took, The setting is at the Card Queens dressing table!

Sunshine, Hearts & Imaginary Beings

With first year done and dusted it’s time to give the pencils a rest and enjoy the summer break…not for too long though!

I’m already looking forward to helping out at the ‘GROW’ degree show in Manchester’s Northern Quarter and I am already bursting with ideas for the two summer projects ‘Narrative Sequence’ and ‘Imaginery Beings’.

In addition to the above I decided that I would like to set my own little project, and have decided on ‘Dream of the Card Queen’ as a starting point.  I really enjoyed the ‘Persona’ project in the first year and loved how free the project was.

The project is about a girl who has reoccurring dreams about a story she read when she was little and without her realising the story and her dreams collide and begin to appear in her everyday life, the story then becomes her life.

It’s still in early stages and I am still researching ideas and busy finding anything red and heart shaped for props!…I will get some pictures on here very soon.
I also hope to get out and about and take some creative pictures of my travels and get back to basics with drawing and experimenting with line, shape and texture.