Blodeuwedd was created
from magic, to be a wife for Lleu as he leads a cursed life and is unable to
find a wife naturally, but blodeuwedd falls in love with another local man,
Goronwy. As new lovers, they plot to kill Lleu so they can be together, but as
Lleu is cursed he can only be killed in a very specific way. Blodeuwedd tricks
Lleu to show her what he would need to do, and then Goronwy throws the spear.
But Lleu does not die, he transforms into an eagle. The concept of image was
already complex to illustrate, so I research for reference images of old saw
mills from the Welsh museum, St Fagan’s. I feel that it would be very difficult
to understand the concept of the image without background knowledge, but
hopefully the image leaves the viewer with questions.
The last image is of
Blodeuwedd being cursed into being an owl, as people have discovered her plot
to kill Lleu. This image is much like the first image of the starlings and the
letter, as it has its own small narrative, but it is also a closure to the
sequence. To help communicate the end of the narrative and the sequence of images, I designed Blodeuwedd's flowers to start dropping and the plants to change colour as though they are dying.
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