Summer owl says, hellooo.

Cornelia is the my smallest lantern with the fastest turn-around (completed in three days) to have participated in the Vancouver Folk Music Festival. I made her upon my return from London with the intention of making a small lantern. Huge emphasis on the scale because of last year’s wolf which was perhaps 4x the size of this gal.  I dedicated more time to the papering aspect, which paid off quite well. I was going for a Ukrainian feel, but according to some Folkfesters it looks Westcoast inspired and possibly Japanese. Hmm.

I attempted to bring her to the Illuminaries at Trout Lake only to be drowned out by rain and a magnadoodle of lightning. Cornelia had to be plastic sacked for fear of her paper feathers becoming soggy. However, the evening was a gorgeous orange spread across into grey punctuated with sudden squiggles of light and cracks of thunder. Nature at its most astonishing.