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Before the Setting of the Sun

jacquelynvansant

Published: Mar 6, 2012

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I have been working on this photo-manip off and on for almost a month now. I am still not quite satisfied with the lighting, but it is close enough for now.

The title of this piece is taken from Disney's The Little Mermaid, where Ursula the Sea Witch tells Ariel she must receive true love's kiss "before the sun sets on the third day". The hero and lady in this piece are not connect with that fairytale (or any fairytale). I just wanted to depict a hero in the split second before a climatic "battle". I got a little carried away with the glow, lights, and sparkles.

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EmmetEarwax

Aug 15, 2014

The original legend of the Mermaid was to show that mixed marriages -bet humans and the Other People- do NOT work out. The nonhuman partner places a geas on the human (do not gaze upon me on Saturdays, do not reprove me for what my family do, ...) which is invariably violated (either out of weakness or forgetfulness) and the wronged partner departs ,sometimes taking the children with her, He's lucky is she doesn't hang around as a BANSHEE.

In the case of the Lusignan family, the children stayed with the human father, but a descendant Simon I, founded Montfort and they continued to have the fortune and skill inherited from the nonhuman fairy wife.

In one warped per-version of Disney's already radical version of the story, ARIEL agrees to be treated as a dog, wearing a collar, sleeping on the hearth....