From the time I first read Alice in Wonderland ... and I don't know exactly when this was ...
... must have been pretty early in life, when I just started to be able to read more than a picture book ... let's say the first year of school, but my memory can't really confirm this statement ... it seems I know that book and story forever, who knows, maybe I even saw the Disney cartoon first ... anyway, since Alice in Wonderland is present in my inner universe ...
... Easter is a fantastic place ... all those bunnies are always White Rabbits ready to lead you to the strangest places of your mind ...
... and fluffy yellow chicks can become bizarre predators at times.
The eggs are not just part of the setting ... they are the setting ...
In my Easter world, every egg is a universe ... that shelters something bizarre or whimsical ... or both.
Here I collected some of those Cosmic eggs ...
... and gave them life through animation.
As much cliché and obvious that this may sound :D the iconic White Rabbit song is playing on repeat, in the original and in a few cover versions, while I'm writing and uploading this stuff.
Amazing! Right now, in this very moment, I accidentally learned how to make a GIF enlargeable! It's an Easter miracle!
I tried many color palette variations until I finally chose the one you see in the post. I don't know exactly why it works for me ... maybe I saw it somewhere in old picture books. Anyway, to add a bit of diversity I did a couple of different versions ... here is a menacing one.
I also wanted these illustrations to look like cards ... Tarot cards or something like that ... I don't now anything about Tarot reading and all those rules and systems, but I like that imagery very much ... especially the archaic look of some stuff there.
Of course ... I just had to include at least one Easter Island reference. :D
And so now ... egg after egg ...
... each one holding an embryo of some potentially larger story ...
... with this closing, very large & enlargeable image, in which you can see all the characters reunited in one place, like in some kitschy Hollywood finale ... the post has come to an end, and is waiting to be resurrected ... as always in these posts on Hive, all the artwork, in all segments ... imagining ... drawing ... animation - is my work.
THE END.
