Jayde Xu: Fairy Tale Collage Sketches

 

The Little Mermaid / Oil Spill pollution

Summary: "The Little Mermaid dwells in an underwater kingdom with her widowed father (the sea king or Mer-King), her dowager grandmother, and her five older sisters, each of whom had been born one year apart. When a mermaid turns fifteen, she is permitted to swim to the surface for the first time to glimpse the world above, and when the sisters become old enough, each of them visits the upper world one at a time every year."

Little However, come her time to visit the surface, she is appalled to find her various sea creature companions sick from the black oil that destroys their ocean. While tending to the birds, fishes and other animals, the Little Mermaid becomes disillusioned by humankind and the oil that is destroying her home. 

Jayde Xu: Happy Family Final

Sam Xu - Environmental Fairy Tale Thumbnails (Houyi and the Ten Suns)

The original Chinese tale of the ten suns tells of a deity, Di Jun, who had ten suns as children. The suns would take turns riding across the sky each day. One day, the suns grew tired of this and all ten of them rose to play in the sky together. Their combined heat made life on Earth unbearable, burning the land, drying crops, and killing people. Nine of the suns had to be shot down by the archer Houyi, and the remaining sun is the one we still see in the sky today. In my retelling, I'm focusing on the problem of drought that would be caused by this overheating of the planet. Crops are dead, and Houyi is forced to look for water along dry riverbeds, without strength to shoot down the suns.

red riding hood/air pollution in asia

Emily Rosenthal- Fairytale sketches (The Little Mermaid)

Sarah Pilkinton -- The Goodman o' Wastness sketches

The Goodman o' Wasness

The Goodman o' Wastness is a version of an Orcadian selkie legend. Selkies are mythological creatures that are seals in the sea and humans upon land that are found in Irish and Scottish folklore.This particular version comes from Orkney, which is an archipelago off of the northeastern coast of Scotland. 

Summary: The Goodman o' Wastness is an attractive, solitary man who is desired by many of the young women in his town. He ignores them and makes it clear that he does not desire to take a wife. Most of them become bitter towards him and leave him alone. One day, the Goodman is walking along the shore and he sees a group of selkies in human form lying upon the beach. He runs toward them. Most of them grab their seal-skins and escape back into the sea, except for one. He grabs her seal-skin and walks off with it. She follows him, begging him for her seal-skin back. When he gets to his house, he turns to her and finds that he loves her. Instead of giving her the seal-skin back, he hides it from her and forces her into marrying him. They are married for several years, have several children, and appear to be happy. However, every day she searches the entire house for her seal-skin. One day, when her husband is out and the selkie-wife is looking for her skin, her youngest daughter asks what she is doing. She tells her daughter that she is looking for a soft skin to wrap her feet in. The daughter says that she has seen such a thing on her father's shelf. The selkie-wife grabs the skin and runs off to the sea. She hurriedly puts it on, and meets her selkie-husband, who is waiting for her in the waves. However in this version, when the selkie-wife meets her husband, she is shocked by the amount of plastic pollution in the sea, and she sees that he has a plastic six-pack ring stuck around his neck. 

Lee Bowen - Fairytale/Environmental Sketches

Story: Jack and the Beanstalk

Environmental Issue: Deforestation/ Illegal Logging

The original story had no moral lesson and showed Jack as a bad "'hero' gaining the sympathy of a man's wife, hiding in his house, robbing, and finally killing him." I wanted to highlight the greed of the character, Jack, who in this version is a logger, and the sorrow of the singing harp (who in the original story also did not want to be stolen from the giant) as she sees the destruction Jack has caused with his greed. The point of the image is to criticize the act of taking too much from the land.

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ivonne manon hansel and gretel SKETCHES

Poor families, unable to feed their children begin abandoning them in the depths of the forest. Desperate for food or shelter, naive children walk into the devils mouth. A sweet mirage too good to be true. A sweet woman offering candy and hospice in the depths of poverty. A promise for a new family, a place to play with other children without growing weary with hunger.

The truth behind the colorful candy exterior is a life of indentured servitude, human trafficking and online sex tourism.

Mica Linz- East of the Moon and West of the Sun/Melting Polar Ice

Once upon a time there was a very poor peasant couple with lots of children. One night, the father heard tapping on the window and went outside to see what it was. It was a the polar bear king, who promised to make the family fabulously wealthy if the youngest daughter would marry him. She eventually agreed and went to live in his ice palace, where all their energy needs came from the sun and the wind. At night, when all the lights had been turned off, he turned into a man and lay down next to her. They lived happily together for a while, but eventually the girl grew unbearably curious about the polar bear king’s human form. The next night when he was asleep she lit an oil lamp and saw her husband’s true form, an amazingly handsome man. But he awoke and cried:

“I am under a curse, if you had been content with what you have and not used a harmful energy source to see me I would have been free. Now I must leave you and our palace shall melt away.”

The castle collapsed and a chunk of ice broke away with the polar bear king on it. It drifted away so fast there was no chance of him swimming back to shore. 

Little Red-Cap (Little Red Riding Hood) and Deforestation

These are the color sketches for my idea of little red riding hood (or red-cap, as she is called in the Grimm Fairy Tale) in a modern world setting. The story idea is as follows:

A young, wealthy girl who dressed in a beautiful red cap that was made of furs is tasked to visit her ill grandmothers house with gifts of lots of foods. She is told to follow the path, and so she set out on her way. She meets halfway with the wolf (a starving animal maybe?) that begs for food from her basket, but she ignores him. She picks some flowers, a valuable resource in the deforested woods and goes along her way. Meanwhile the wolf, hungry and without another option, breaks into the grandmothers house to try to find food. He hides himself among the clothes in the room, and red cap arrived to the cottage, she discovers the wolf searching for food and, with the aid of a passing huntsman, they slaughter the wolf, who had crept too close to people in search of food.

Eleanor Kim - Hansel and Gretel's Littering (Waste Management) Sketches

The story:

Once, they have found chests full of pearls and diamonds, Hansel and Gretel became very spoiled and wealthy children. Their father owned a lucrative toy and industrial factory. They lived in a grand chateau with a crowd of maids and butlers to attend to all their needs. Never was there a lack of food – the family held feasts every night and Hansel and Gretel were great eaters.

As a change of routine, Hansel, Gretel, and their father went out in the neighboring woods for a picnic. Hansel and Gretel could not wait to eat - so they started taking food from the basket and ate while they walked, littering the path with plastics, wrappers, and trash. The animals complained about how they were ruining their home, which alerted the dead witch’s spirit of the woods.

The next day, Gretel remembered that she had brought her teddy bear on their last picnic outing, and she had lost it. Hansel and Gretel went out into the woods to search for it, but they got lost in the litter and forest. They came across a large landfill pile and heard a voice cry for help. They ran over and were startled to meet the dead witch’s spirit of the woods.

The witch ordered them to clean up the trash or else she will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

When all the trash was properly disposed of and recycled, the witch thanked them and happily drifted away. Gretel finally found her teddy bear, and the forest animals helped the two children back home.

Serena Jiang- Tangled and Oil(Petroleum) Pollution

       Long ago, the Tangled got control her country after her parents got dark magic and disappear. A wickedest monster called Gothel want to control this country and she know how to use magic. The foundation of her dark magic is oil, so she ask the civilians to move the colliery in order to get the oil. Gothel became more and more power and the city was been polluted. The country became lose the color. Tangled don't know what she can do, but one day she dreamed her mother. In the dream, her mother told her to be brave and she has the power to absorb dark materials. After that, a chance made her understand her hair has magic. So she solve the pollution and kick out Gothel forever.