With events unfolding in the world guided by the orange troll and his supporters, I feel like today is a good time to remember this amazing version of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier retold and illustrated by Joohee Yoon published by Enchanted Lion Books 2016.
This book has phenomenal illustrations with great textures and incredible complexity and simplicity like all of Joohee Yoon's books, it is a gem.
Tilda Watson's degree show at Dundee was a little like walking into Hans Christian Anderson's storytelling space as the silhouette of large scissors loomed with many other laser cut ply elements.
"My practice explores the symbiotic space where dream recollection and lived memory meet: a state of confusion and of grief for our lost experiences. As we attempt to preserve what is both beyond and within us, we are caught in a never-ending cycle of forgetting and remembering. Recollection documentation has become the basis of my practice, and this is realised through text, drawing, fragmented dialogue, print, and installation. The work consists of an accumulation of visual material and autobiographical notation, reduced to subdued natural hues and monochromatic forms. The fragments of this installation become a map of visual, written, and auditory association where two versions of the “self” collide, and dreams reverberate into the awake experience. The artwork seeks to mediate between the dream self and the awake self, recognising the duality within us all. In so doing, the work helps us understand this dynamic and brings us closer to a realisation of our true selves." Tilda Watson
"a lovable and yet a somewhat uncommon and strange personality ... had one beautiful accomplishment, which was the cutting out in paper, with an ordinary pair of scissors, of lovely little figures of sprites and elves, gnomes, fairies and animals of all kinds which might well have stepped out of the pages of his books."
Henry Dickens
