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Faerie Photoshoot
Location: Spring Grove Cemetary (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Designer: Brittany Everitt & Anna Messinger
MUA and Hair: Brittany Everitt
Model: Marie
Adel Rootstein Mannequin
Student work: Plexi wings, Construction of walls, rework of butterflies
Butterflies from Aritzia
Every year, on the first sunny day after the first rain of the season, a ritual occurs throughout the bay area...
We call it the Launch of the Faeries... it is actually subterranean termite alates, launching from their nests in countless thousands, overwhelming the predators and ensuring that some survive to proceed with the next generation.
This is the first, and last, time these creatures will ever see the sun. When they land somewhere, they turn and bite off their wings, then seek a place where they can crawl underneath something, and start digging down to build their "forever home".
I sometimes wonder what kind of mythology they have in their cultures, about that dangerous, one-time journey into the Big Light, the journey from which none return...
This is a dancer with Kan'nal, a great band that I saw at a recent festival in Veneta, and I will see them again soon-I am really excited about that.
Finally got some pics of my Amethyst Faerie, I just finished her hair a couple of hours ago. She is made of Japanese glass seed beads, organic cotton, and real amethyst beads for her ball-joints. Now she just needs a dress!