Da Ying

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Fairy tales—they are such happy, pretty, pretentious little things; insect-singing, bird-chirping, flower-blooming, wind-whistling, almost-disaster-but-not-quite little darlings. Oh! And happy endings. Disney is ever the altruist. But what I am interested in are the sinister gems that inspired these modern counterfeits. In these earlier largely vocal stories, Little Red cannibalizes Grandma alongside the Wolf before being [...]

These are some experimental photos and some first exploratory looks at what the photos could look like.

Abandoning the iris and the holes on West Campus idea, I decided to pursue miniatures. It seemed the natural direction, as my project with Kwame focused primarily on construction and creating abstract miniatures using found objects. Figuring out the subject of the photographs was the difficult part. After some deliberation, I decided to go back [...]