Chandra Brooks

storyteller, folklorist, visual artist

'Silhouette' by Andrew Valkenburg - Chandra My next storytelling project is "The Keys of Destiny from '1001 Arabian Nights'". In it I get to play Sherezade so photographer Andrew Valkenburg and I have been experimenting with shadowed or veiled images to this end because as always, I will never actually be SEEN!

I am creating a universal fairy tale Project which uses 'La Rate Blanche', a forgotten French folk tale as the basis of creating a fairy tale for all of humanity to speak one language and share an experience that links cultures and defies national, philosophical, religious, and social boundaries.

To this end, I have created source material in French, English and Chinese as the basic archetypes for each version of the fairy tale to be based upon.

Title Page for the French Illumination - combines numerous elements from the medival manuscript through modern craftsmanship.

Detail and example of how light cuttings are used in performances - light cutting with shadow

The creation of a light cutting - Documentation of my paper-cutting technique for 'The Book of Shadows' (Chinese language version of La Rate Blanche).

FabLab @ Mediamatic, Block Printing & Wood Block Printing, Tim Olden, Emil Yap, Form follows Print 2009

Luis Rodil-Fernandez, Alan Donson

Mission Eternity lecture by Etoy

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Chandra Brooks

http://www.chandrabrooks.com