* Frida *
* A Midsummer Night's Dream *Okidokes ladies, and gents..a couple of weeks ago we did a wonderful little interpretation of one of my favorite shakespeare pieces, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Ever since High School, I have enjoyed the magic, sugar sweet nature of this play, with it's underlying mischievous and sometimes deceitful undertones. Our task was to take three of the plays characters and come up with costumes they would wear in the piece based off of an artist or artisan of the past. What an incredible undertaking right? Well I decided with the teacher's help, to interpret the characters of Titania, Oberon and Puck, the three main fairies of the play, through Frida Kahlo's eyes. Frida being of course the Surrealist painter of the middle of the 20th century. What I wanted to bring was the sense of animalistic interpretations she uses in her paintings to represent herself, to represent the fairies. They of course living in the forest, helped me come up with the idea that being as such, each would be representative of a certain animal group that any forest, rainforest or water mass, as I conceptualized this, Titania became a mother nature type figure, oberon, became a Poseidon type, and Puck well he just became an owl, the reason for that being, that he is ever watchful of the characters in the play, so being as such, I just assumed that he would be the soul real Animal in the group of fairies, like a spirit fairy that took form of an owl to live in the forest keeping a mischievous watch over the love and deceit that characters encounter. Oberon and Titania would be represented as a fairy like Frida Kahlo and Diego rivera from Frida's 1931 portrait she did of her relationship. Puck would literally be on his on, in a tree standing watch.
~Titania and Oberon's Inspiration~
~Titania & Oberon~
~Puck~
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