myths and legends - a magical world that can inspire everybody’s fantasy…
it began with a piece for an exhibition titled “icons”, I chose Mary Shelley and Frankenstein. Stories of explorers, a traditional song about a soldier and a nordic shaman with one arm eventually landed me with the legends of the “Kingdom of Fanes” situated in the Dolomites.
Mary Shelley, her handwriting, the quote “ beware for I am fearless and therefore powerful “ and a victorian doll at the front, the reverse shows locks of hair, symbolising her 3 lost children, victorian lace for the oppression, lava sand as a symbol for her husband’s ashes and the volcanic eruption in the year of creating Frankenstein, death and poems of her husband
According to legends, the people of the kingdom of Fanes lived 7 years under the mountain to mine and 7 years in the valley for farming and fishing …
