Snow Symposium. The creation of a snow sculpture for the Winnipeg Festival du Voyageur has been my task for the past week and a half. My teammates Drew, Nathan and Dave have done a great job creating a metaphoric picture stemming from the iconic snow angel. We've taken this picture and transformed it into a three dimensional form. The snow angel is a shape in negative form in the snow. Our sculpture inverts this snow-time tradition with the embodiment of an angel
of snow. We've named it "Ange de Neige" (Angle OF snow). Our form explores the creation of a snow angel, a pasttime which unites Canadians, Americans and any other country and culture that knows snow. Interestingly enough, practically every culture with snow experience has some form of the snow angel. I guess it's human nature to throw ourselves into the seasonal white powder and wave our arms and legs, then marvel at the shape we've created. It is fun, it is beautiful, it reminds many of us who claim a "mature" age of childhood winters.
It never ceases to amaze me how such a simple icon connects people from such vastly different cultures.
Whether our sculpture is chosen or not, I hope that it can unite humanity just a little more. Within the periphery of snow angels lie such things as presents, sledding, snowmen, hot apple cider, crackling fires and joy. This list embodies a seasonal spirit of kindness and tolerance. Ange de Neige is a reminder to the people of the world that we are connected, and that living in peace can bring the childhood joys of a snow angel into the realm of "maturity".
The following is an image of our preliminary boards.
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What do you think?
-Does this look like it belongs in a wedding book?
-what are some of your favourite childhood snow memories?
-Does a snow angel bring and specific memories to mind?
-the feel of the page definitely matches a wedding book, but I think the images themselves feel out of place. Probably because in a wedding book you'd expect to have pictures of, you know, the wedding. But other than that, it would.
ReplyDelete- Digging tunnels in the snow pile that dad had made with the tractor, or the drifts that formed against the fence. Also skiing.
I notice you commented on Phil's board about his use of white space. Although I like Phils, I don't think your design is complicated (or needs to be simplified in this particular case). Your background really embraces the idea behind your design and more importantly it doesn't detract from your drawings... It could be watermarked a little more possibly to highlight the drawings even more...however, I like it
ReplyDeleteI love the inverted snow angel idea. I think it really captures some childhood memories and shows us the part of a snow angel we never got to actually see. But at the same time it's not literally an angel and sort of looks like a snow fort which also nicely captures the childhood idea.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny you asked if it looks like a wedding book page because yes it definitely strikes me as having that theme. It's very beautiful and elegant, but is there any way the presentation could also capture this more playful quality your idea talks about?