<3: Pumpkin magic preparations well underway!
Finding the most sincere and meaningful way to create an experience together with the audience is always one of my goals, a challenging yet valuable process to bring to life the music, to build community, to share the power of art within the work and enlighten something, anything, within, without, connecting to ourselves, understanding ourselves, each other, the incomprehensible mysteries of the world.
There I go again. That’s why I’m obsessed with magic.
What is magic to you?
What is it about storytelling, magic, fairy tales that continues to capture my heart, passion, imagination, and artistic spirit?
memories, nostalgia
freedom/imagination
cuteness (innocence, nostalgia, play)
simplicity* (the hardest to achieve)
I stumbled across this quote on a new Netflix anime Blue Period “Awakening to the Joy of Painting”, and it touched me deeply. Although the show is about visual art, I feel the sentiment applies to all the arts.
“I thought marking art was a kind of magic that only a select few could use, but it doesn’t seem to be the case. Now that I’m drawing, the scenery I’ve always seen appears more clearly than before. I realized that there are many interesting things and ideas, when seeing it, you get to know it, when drawing it, you get to understand it. If I hadn’t made that drawing, I wouldn’t have noticed that.”
It’s the process, the noticing. That’s what we as artists are there to serve, as a portal to guide and facilitate this curiosity, imagination, attention, discovery. So how can I ask of your attention? That’s what I’m trying to find, what are the ways I can facilitate my audience entering into this magical world with me, to notice, to feel, to be filled with awe and wonder.
Some Teaching Artistry techniques I’ve learnt are coming into practice here, and I’m still experimenting, but this pilot for Once Upon a Pumpkin is already shaping up to be another fantastical experience! I'm setting up giant blow up LED pumpkin lights, scripting some fun surprises, incorporating a princess costume transformation, and planning out a cohesive collaborative art-making process throughout the concert the incorporates coloured polka dot stickers. Inspired by Yayoi Kusama’s installations <3. After the Ghiblilane concert I really realized how the time and care we put to craft the detailed design and storyline of a concert can affect all the nuanced feelings surrounding the experience.
All that said, please join me for another adventure where I will be sharing lots of asiantinkerbell magic glitter and love and joy and music! And candy yes yes yes~ If only I was allowed to bring homebaked pumpkin pie! The eternal love I have for pumpkins… xD the eternal X.D. face…
Sincerely as always,
xoxo
Derpy pumpkin princess
A little thought on the the title “Reminiscence of Snow White”… what is reminiscence?
Reminiscence: “a story told about a past event remembered by the narrator,” “the enjoyable (?) recollection of past events,” “a characteristic of one thing reminding or suggestive of another”
memories, recollections, reflections, remembrances
“to remember”: what does it mean to remember? to recreate, to rediscover, new within the familiar, that’s magic
seeing in new ways, with curiosity and wonder. Then there is magic in everything.
having realizations, connections with something
Shall we music and art? Shall we dream and reminisce?
