blog 6 - fairy tale emergence pt 1

I realized something in my drawings. I saw something about myself. I have a theme of princesses looking, watching, waiting off in the distance for some destiny or some event to bring them to life. In yesterday’s drawing, it’s fear and hiding which turns into a call for the girl to go slay the dragon that is terrorizing her kingdom. The royal family has sent her into hiding in the caves of the mountain nearby, and she watches the dragon circling the palace, sometimes landing on its beautiful spires and breathing its fiery breath. At night, she watches this, and sometimes he burns the thatched cottage roofs of dried grass. We are afraid of the dark.

I am a modern fairy tale lover. The princess must master something inside herself to kill the dragon, to triumph over evil, and to set her kingdom free and usher in peace time again. The Oedipal queen has sent her away with a trusted servant into the hills and the caves. But the princess rebels. Day after day she watches the dragon taunt and threaten her home and people. And finally, she senses a way to find its lair. She decides to journey to the dragon’s lair, to go into it when it is sleeping, and fight it herself.

A young woman who is overprotected, but wants the good and wants to act. A worthy queen, a good mother, but struggling with herself.

Hiding.

Watching.

Waiting.