fAiRies

In 1917 a series of photographs were made by 2 young girls in England featuring fairy cutouts. We can easily tell that these fairies are 2D cut outs, but for many years it was debated. The 2 girls claimed that these fairies were real and many believed them until one of the girls admitted in the 1980s that they were faked. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, believed without a doubt that the fairies in these images were real, claiming, “The recognition of their existence will jolt the material twentieth century mind out of its heavy ruts in the mud, and will make it admit that there is a glamour and mystery to life.” For this project I want to recreate this classic hoax with animated fairy models to bring some ‘glamour and mystery’ to the twenty-first century.