The next step in the assignment was to collect relevant images, textures and photographs of the sketches of our effigies. With these we were to create collages relating to the story of our piece.
My ideas were quite strong by now so it was easy to plan the collages to tell the story. I planned four collages: the wren, the winter, the hunt and the effigy.
I found some lovely photographs of wrens and cut them out. I also found a photo of a classical garden feature in an atmospheric environment. It was a happy accident to place it in such a way that it looks like the wren is carrying the gazebo on its back! I think it alludes to the bird being called the 'king of birds' in Europe. I wrote the story of the Holly King up the side of the picture, and also the folktale about why the wren became the king of birds.
The latin name of the wren is 'troglodytidae' meaning 'earth dweller'.
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