Ice Queen
by Kathy Bassett
Title
Ice Queen
Artist
Kathy Bassett
Medium
Photograph - Photography - Digital Fine Art
Description
My photo of a sculpture in a park, collaged with another tree photo and finished with textures and painted snow....One day the Ice Queen came to warn her cousin the Snow Queen of global warming. A storm ensued. And as the original story goes, the following winter, Kai goes out with his sled to play in the snowy market square and as was the custom hitches it to a curious white sleigh carriage, driven by the Snow Queen, who appears as a woman in a white fur-coat. Outside the city she reveals herself to Kai and kisses him twice: once to numb him from the cold, and a second time to make him forget about Gerda and his family; a third kiss would kill him. She takes Kai in her sleigh to her palace, the people of the city decide that Kai died in the nearby river. Gerda, heartbroken, goes out to look for him and questions everyone and everything about Kai's whereabouts. She offers her new red shoes to the river in exchange for Kai; by not taking the gift at first, the river lets her know that Kai did not drown. Gerda next visits an old sorceress with a beautiful garden of eternal summer. The sorceress wants Gerda to stay with her forever, so she causes Gerda to forget all about Kai, and causes all the roses in her garden to sink beneath the earth, since she knows that the sight of them will remind Gerda of her friend. Gerda's warm tears raise one bush above the ground, and it tells her that it could see all the dead while it was under the earth, and Kai is not among them. Gerda flees and meets a crow, who tells her that Kai is in the princess's palace. Gerda goes to the palace and meets the princess and the prince, who is not Kai, but looks like him. Gerda tells them her story, and they provide her with warm clothes and a beautiful coach. While traveling in the coach Gerda is captured by robbers and brought to their castle, where she befriends a little robber girl, whose pet doves tell her that they saw Kai when he was carried away by the Snow Queen in the direction of Lapland.Wherein she met up with her cousin the Ice Queen....
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January 30th, 2014
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Comments (28)
Laurel Adams
Ice queen thaws my heart and takes my breath away, Kathy! Beautiful Digital Fine Art!...l/F Will revisit.
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art Group feature! You are invited to archive your work in the Features Archive discussion as well as any other discussion in which it would fit!
Don Columbus
Congratulations Kathy, your work is Featured in "Photographic Camera Art" I invite you to place it in the group's "2018 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Lori Pittenger
Congratulations Kathy, your outstanding artwork has been featured on the leading page of “Impressionism” group! Feel free to add it to the featured art archive and the catalogs in the group’s discussions. Excellent work, so magical! Lori
Kathy Bassett
Hi Laurel! Thank you for your kind comments and I am happy you enjoyed this image, one of my favs!
Laurel Adams
Absolutely breathtaking, Kathy!...yes, I got sidetracked into your portfolio...such gorgeous work! LOVE this one, personally!
Kathy Bassett
Wonderful to have Ice Queen featured in your Graphic Wall Art Photography group, Roselynn!