A clever and haunting music-box melody plays over ghostly murmurs of a song. The animation is composed of intricately placed dolls (wax and paper) with charmingly painted backgrounds. Dame Darcy is a magnificent singer and artist (doll-maker, banjo-minstrel, illustrator). I cannot commend her work sufficiently, it's an unmarried bride clothed in silver faerie fish-mail.
To be more implicit: her illustrative art-work focuses on images of haunted, pale beings with opera-style theatrical makeup, bayou kingdoms, and insinuations of phantom violence. Her music is intentionally simple and pretty. Her voice is soft and calming. This can be enjoyed best as a relaxing Halloween ceremony. After the travels, after the costumes are shed, after the playing has become a smile you might listen to Dame Darcy's Golden Shoes while you sit on a candle-light yellowed bedside.
The plot line is dreaming: it is a metaphor for solitude and soft mourning. We view the losses and loneliness from a distance, just like the "watching girl" in David Lynch's Inland Empire.
I love her. You will too, someday when your spirit wakens and the honey is pasting your lips to the heart of truth.
To be more implicit: her illustrative art-work focuses on images of haunted, pale beings with opera-style theatrical makeup, bayou kingdoms, and insinuations of phantom violence. Her music is intentionally simple and pretty. Her voice is soft and calming. This can be enjoyed best as a relaxing Halloween ceremony. After the travels, after the costumes are shed, after the playing has become a smile you might listen to Dame Darcy's Golden Shoes while you sit on a candle-light yellowed bedside.
The plot line is dreaming: it is a metaphor for solitude and soft mourning. We view the losses and loneliness from a distance, just like the "watching girl" in David Lynch's Inland Empire.
I love her. You will too, someday when your spirit wakens and the honey is pasting your lips to the heart of truth.