"The Green Ribbon" is a strange children's story based on a European folktale. Alvin Schwartz's version is about a girl who grows up, falls in love with a boy, and marries him... but won't ever tell him why she always wears a green ribbon around her neck. He finds out why at the gently gruesome end of the story. The ribbon takes on both a whimsical and sinister representation of life/death. I used to like to read and get freaked out by this story over and over again.
i LOVED that story. it was so morbid in a beautiful and fascinating way. i really like the simple depiction of it, and the way the ribbon falls is quite lovely. there's strong tension with the subject so heavily towards the right.. it adds something (instead of just a centred photo) but i'm unsure if it's positive or negative tension! i guess you can try to make it heavy on the left, but i do like it as is!
ReplyDelete- carrie cai
Hi Claire!
ReplyDeleteI think I would have loved to see the back of the mannequin instead of the front. So, there is less of an identity.
-Michelle Nunes
Claire
ReplyDeleteI think you need to pull back and have the head more obviously hovering...perhaps tilt it more so it's not so upright. It is also too underexposed.
-Robyn