Tales from the forest

This art installation was created for the Vancouver Opera's "Fairy Tales and Fables Festival", showing at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre and The Vancouver Playhouse in the spring of 2019.

Taking inspiration from fairytales, pop-up books and animation cels, I created a setting where visitors were able to enter a story. Attendees stepped into this art piece, placing themselves inside this fairytale world. They transported themselves into an alternate version of the forests we know. These plants and flowers are changed, mythical versions of nature that we are familiar with. They were surrounded by strings of ivy, creeping ferns, ethereal moths, clusters of mushrooms and peculiar berries. This interactive display allowed visitors to step into this mythical world and have their photo taken, proof that they traveled to this otherworldly place.