Hedgehog & Hare
Hello everyone!
I was recently invited to a group show about the Grimm’s fairytale at ArchEnemy Arts gallery in Philadelphia, where I was prompted to pick a fairytale and make an artwork about it.
So I dived into a list of the brothers Grimm’s Fairytales and there are a lot of them. It makes sense since most of these tales are simply a written recollection of tales that were told across Europe for centuries.
I only checked the tales that had animals as protagonists and ended up using “the Hedgehog and the Hare”.
In that specific tale, the hedgehog and the hare do a race to see who is faster.
The hedgehog, who is obviously slower works with his wife who looks exactly like him. The wife waits at the finishing line and pops out just when the hare arrives to win the race.
The hare doesn’t comprehend the strategy and keeps challenging the hedgehog to another race, until the hare eventually dies from exhaustion.
I decided to sculpt a tiny hare, lost in a rainbow forest that is in fact the hedgehog and titled the piece “Den Wald vor Lauter Bäumen Nicht Sehen”, which is a German idiom that translates into “Not Seeing the Forest Because of All The Trees”.
The color scheme here was inspired by a recent color scheme I did on a painting “Blooming Camera”, which I talk about more in this blog post.
This piece is already sold :)
However you can still view it at ArchEnemy Arts gallery in Philadelphia until the 12th March of 2023!