About Erzebet
"She consults the sacred texts of fairy tales and the oral tradition of folklore, interpreting and reinterpreting them through the techniques of "found art" in a new translation of the primordial language of myth. Her work utilizes leaves and bones, shells and stones, the wings of dragonflies—the stuff of dreams—in an iconic retelling of the old traditions as seen through the shattered lens of modernity.
Erzebet's writing is based in the inherent connection between word and image: as she draws her inspiration from the world around her, and its inspiration of our dreams of Faerie, so too does she return it to the world with her poems and stories, crafting a narrative of the fantastic that transcends genre distinctions."
So sayeth
Dr. Helen Pilinovsky, who herself has quite the way with words.
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Dreaming of Dragons arrived and it is even more amazing than the pictures led me to believe."
Not about me, really, but this is what a customer had to say about one of my bone artworks.
"She's a bit strange." - anonymous
Well, yes.
Here is what I have to say about myself:
With the exception of a brief visit to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, I am a self-taught artisan who creates strange assemblages out of natural ephemera and binds books by hand. Both of these are the result of a childhood suffused with story and with magic—the elusive magic of fairy tales read to me from the brittle pages of very old books and of the more physical magic of the wild nature that surrounded me.
It was in the wooded garden behind my grandmother's house that I developed a deep appreciation of the ancient earth and those things that remain of seasons past. My art is a means of communicating the understanding I've gained through the observation of and participation in the natural cycles of the land. It was in the world of story—old tales of the wood, of wolves and witches and princes who turn into frogs—that I found a desire to tell my own small tales. My writing is a means of spinning straw into gold, of pulling life's dross through the eye of the fantastic and sewing it up into stories, much liked those that I was once told.
My journey has taken me away from my grandmother's house and into the wide world beyond. I live now in an old town in the center of England where I continue to observe and be inspired by all that is around me. If you remember nothing else about me, remember this small thing: I passionately enjoy this life I am living. I've been woken by a spell of enchantment and I have no intention of ever sleeping again.
