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Pillars of trees
North Wall of Moon City Palace
drawn about Nov 11, ‘03
posted for Dec 29, 2006
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Another Zela picture! This time, I went for setting rather than character, and this is a terrific picture. Much better than I expected.
This picture was inspired, as began to happen more and more frequently, by music: La cathedral engloutie, par Debussy. Someone I knew played it at a masterclass, and I was enthralled… so pretty……..
Anyway, so, as well as imagining a weed-draped stone structure with light filtering down from above, and water gushing out as it rises, I also imagined a great hall of glass and stone trees for pillars, and as the sun sets, it falls full on two thrones at one end (in this picture, out of sight on the right), illuminating two figures sitting there: Flar and Stria! Stria is one incarnation, at least, of Flair’s mother (remember, Flair is Zela’s husband).
Above the hall proper are five holes in the exact spot of Casseopiea at midsummer, which somehow contrives to be directly overhead. I was pretty innocent of astronomy, and just thought of the vision it would generate, rather than actual physics, so I don’t know if this is possible. The little words and the arrow pointing to the girl say ’scale figure’. My brother says he thinks it’s a good picture!
I watched Princess Mononoke yesterday, on DVD, in Japanese, and it was just as beautiful as I thought it would be. Moro, the wolf goddess, sounds almost like a man’s voice, though. San does lose a bit of ferocity with her Japanese voice in comparison with the english dub, but she sounds much more feminine and beautiful. I haven’t watched it in English since I saw the taped version Dad taped once, but I saw the very short documentary thingie that they made of the actor’s opinions, and of course they put in short clips from the movie, so I noticed that the script is different. I wonder what’s going on. I also noticed that at the end, Eboshi’s lepers are cured! I didn’t notice that before, and I think it’s because one of them gives a gasp as she looks at her healed hands. I thought the wind blew in the other direction and Ashitaka was the only one healed of his curse, but now there’s more happy endings all around. Yay.