19x9” piece (1.5” deep) from my limited edition Monet’s Fairies collection! Photographic composite, mounted on ebony-stained birch panel. UV protection varnish applied, ready to hang.

Layers: lily pads are from Monet’s famous pond in Giverny, overlayed with images from the stained glass ceiling of a Parisian restaurant popular among artists both present and past. The “fairies” are lights in the window of a Paris salon. All of these images were taken during my artists’ residency in Paris during the fall of 2019.

Name: We all know this Fairy from Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker", and even people who don't know much about ballet or classical music will recognize her song. She was chosen to rule the Land of the Sweets (a job I think I'd be quite good at!).

Fun fact about the music for the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy: the choreographer wanted the music to sound like drops of water in a fountain, and Tchaikovsky used a recently invented instrument called the celesta that looked like a piano, but sounded like bells. Where did he find this magical new instrument? That's right: Paris. Everything in the world is connected after all.