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! We've been working on "dark images" for several years now. This is specific to the role of storytelling and the continuum of finding yesterday's images in today's language.

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

Contact informatie

Chandra Brooks

http://www.chandrabrooks.com