In this book her characters all stand along a parade - they're all part of the same whimsical universe, but can exist as separate entities -- the normal and the strange
Theres a preciousness and a calming, familiar quality to her work despite the skewing of reality?? They feel like old well-told tales told from a wonky log cabin in a wonky forest where the sun has legs.
I love the fact that they are completely analogue and you can make out the quality of the paint.
Theres a story (or multiple) to be told in each image
Makes me want to get cracking and making lots of weird n wonderful characters.
The Blackbird
The Blackbird is a short poem by Audrey. The pictures followed the words and it has a rhythm to it. Its beautiful and bizarre and sad and lovely and all things.
The simplicity of the language used - short, simple sentences -- the imagery is what tells the story.
Like how David Hockney described why he loved the Grimm Tales so much - the stories and the language is so simple and accessible, yet it opens you out onto a whole world of weirdness and narrative.
This is what I want to achieve with my folklore tales (I'd like to make a book). The actual written story to be quite short (maybe it could even rhyme?? too much??), and for the words to sit alongside the pictures but not detract from the fact that the images could tell the story themselves?
I want to maybe get inducted into letterpress - I think this would add a slowness quality (does this make sense) to the book, feels more precious?
duck dancing with the moon? sure why not throw in a turtle neck too.
shes great!!!!!!
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