Fairy-Tales

A presentation of adapted fairy-tales inviting us to consider shades of magic amidst realities of stark deformity!

Alright, actually(!), I'll be signing off with fairy-tales, inspired by The Brothers Grimm. Enjoy! 

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Let's begin our dark and enchanting journey through a series of fairy-tales designed to stir your deep imagination about what comprises structure and sanity as well as complexity and chaos in our mysterious world. These tales of wonder and disorientation will entice your curiosities about the very nature of order and uncertainty, and perhaps they might compel you to consider what makes you think of life's shapes.

TALE 1 (Battlefields)

During the American Civil War (19th-Century) in Western civilization, two vast armies in the United States waged battles over the right to preside over the issue of human slavery and race-based economics for governance. This terrible and costly war, waged between brothers of the same country (America!) created much battlefield intrigue as well as vertigo and horror, and during one certain battle, soldiers from the Union/Confederate armies claimed they sighted a strange-looking winged 'being' (or fairy-angel) which literally distracted them from the dark reality of fighting.

This 'war-presence' fairy-angel seemed to be clothed in white and seemed to appear in the distance in the glowing sunlight of the setting sun over the Civil War battlefield and wielded a mystical hammer-like weapon the 'being' seemed to be sending a message about regarding the raw density of mobilized fighting, and the haunted soldiers who sighted her believed they'd been receiving a very 'private' message about the mysteries of life itself. Would they ever want to fight again or regret warfare altogether?

TALE 2 (The Forest)

In a certain European forest, a man afflicted with the Coronavirus named Amlan Satan decided to camp and rest and trek, to appreciate the beauty-magic of nature and the splendor of life, contemplating the mystical face of immortality and the fear of death as he wrestled with what seemed to be a terminal/incurable condition.

This Coronavirus-afflicted Algerian-American man (Amlan Satan) was in a protective mask and gloves while camping in the forest in Europe and set-up a nice tent to read his copy of Doctor Zhivago. During his journey inside the forest, Amlan began to wonder if his terminal/incurable condition rendered him incapable of reaching out to others for the sentiments of love.

Well, in that mystical Euro-forest, Amlan Satan encountered a magically beautiful woman named Jen who claimed to him, to his shock, that she wasn't, in fact, a normal humanoid/person! She claimed she was a fairy who transformed into a human woman to bring to Amlan, the poor afflicted soul, a message of romance and intimacy during his Coronavirus tribulation. Amlan died in that forest, but what he remembered most in his life was the 'serendipity' of sentimental meditation wrought from his encounter with this 'angel' woman Jen (a fairy?) who gave him a strange sense of regret.

TALE 3 (The Mermaid)

A depressed doctor in the city of Boston (New England) struggled with coming to terms with the mass infections of COVID-19 in the modern American population, wondering how she's make it through personally as a medical caregiver. This female doctor, Shelley Winterbourne, had a son from a previous marriage, Damian, who was afflicted with Coronavirus, inspiring her to make a series of private paintings/artworks depicting/casting her mission to bring hope in this time of Plague.

Shelley decided to take her afflicted son Damian to the Pacific Ocean (California, USA) and allow him to swim in a warm body-suit and mask with diving-gear and rope below their sailing-boat, so her son would obtain a dose of life's enchantment should he be uncured from his condition! However, while underwater, Damian claimed to sight a real-life mermaid-creature (an underwater dwelling humanoid 'female' with half-fish aquatic body/biology) who told him, "Don't fear death, when life's medicine-people such as Shelley bring you daydreams of true delight." Damian came out of the experience with a fresh sense of distancing, which had helped Shelley endure through this 'dark' tribulation.

TALE 4 (Titanic)

A Titanic-archaeology/scientist named Dawn was working with her research-crew from Harvard on retrieving valuable 'antiques' from the deep-ocean sunken-site of the iconic/legendary cruise-ship which had attempted to carry numerous people from the older world through a disaster of iceberg reality! Dawn was determined to find special antiques down there in the cold waters.

However, what Dawn and her research-diving crew from Harvard found instead were odd and eerie little 'gemstones' which seemed to now glow endlessly. She had reasoned with her crew, who'd agreed to keep this very unusual discovery a 'deep secret' from the world, that the Titanic had sunk during an Aurora Borealis or some kind of strange radiation event which gave some of the gems/diamonds on the Titanic cruise-ship an eternal glowing affected luster. They'd concluded that the Titanic was a tragedy of symbolic deathly proportions.

TALE 5 (Fountain of Youth Soccer)

Two valiant Interpol-relations blood-diamond infiltrations-agents working in Western civilization, intercepting piracy tracks between British Columbia (North America) and Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) were circulating the power of social media re-presented youth-sports activities that dissuaded young men from participating in modern underworld piracy activities and opting for overground social activity instead! These two agents, Amlan/Marcus, considered their soccer-media 'mission' quite important and decided they'd 'eclipsed' a magical sense of socialized distancing from the darker reality of modern piracy.

The two agents (Amlan/Marcus) reasoned that they'd become like Marco Polo in their quest for arrangements in intercontinental adventurism and activity and breached a new era brand of teamwork and spirit in times of great worldly intrigue/change (regarding capitalism/diamonds, etc.). Amlan/Marcus had worked as agents and never as dreamers before this mission began.

AMLAN: I feel almost as if we're becoming more like Peter Pan and his Lost Boys.
MARCUS: Perhaps this sort of James Bond work is what's the magical medicine for this time of dread!

The two valiant world-men were so 'moved' by this mission that they'd agreed to now go questing for the fabled and mysterious (if elusive!) Fountain of Youth, a folkloric body of water, said to be somewhere in North America, which afforded anyone who drank from it eternal life. The two men discovered to their amazement, a nicely 'lit' area of water by old civilization constructions by a swamp-region in Florida which they concluded must be the Fountain of Youth. They decided not to drink but rather took photos of the watery area in that swamp with their handy-dandy smartphones.

When their artistic re-presentations of these Fountain of Youth photos on cyber-forums got thousands of hits/comments/likes, the two world-men (Amlan/Marcus) complimented and concluded that their invigorated sense of optimism had ironically drawn them closer to the modern civilization 'charms' of wrought enchantment in a time of great worldly dangers (blood-diamonds).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)