The word of the week for "Illustration Friday" was Theater. I used to love theater in high school, I don't really like acting but I love studying the plays and history and going to the theater to watch plays.
One of my favorite theater genre is "comedia del-Arte" which is basically the root of all modern comedy.The characters are almost always the same, and the plots are very similar, the show doesn't really follow a script but just put up a story guideline that allow the actors to make fun and joke and improvise all the time.
In this illustration I wanted to not only show the characters of the play, but mostly to give the feeling of a theater - the way that theater is a little perfect world of it's own, and so I created a couple of shadow boxes made of paper showing a few of the characters from Comedia del-Arte.
There were supposed to be 4 pieces in this series, but, building stuff out of paper is a pretty fragile thing and one box didn't make it, so I had to change my plans. looking at the figures in the box made me think of those butterflies in display cases and so I decided to give this a shot as well.
9 comments:
Love your style. These pieces are fascinating to look at.
These are lovely little boxes--so beautiful to look at. They are each indeed its own little world.
These are just beautiful! So detailed and fragile looking. :) Silke
I love the drama and delicacy of these--they're gorgeous!
They are so exquisite! I would love to have one of those boxes :)
Outstanding work Aya, I love it!
I particularly like that sinister harlequin. Such delicate work!
great piece of art, lovely!
These are wonderful little wannahaves. Beautiful!
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