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291 - Heather Pollington - The Art Behind 'Snow White and the Widow Queen'

The Symbolic World

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The Importance of Storytelling in the Christian Tradition

This is an example where, you know we're trying to pull in imagery from the Christian tradition without being explicit people will never know what we're pulling from. And so both of these on the left, you've got the death of the Queen and on the right is the death of Snow White, and they again you gave me a direction for this so it was the icon of the admission. There's a mirroring between the two pieces. The powerful image of the woman of the feminine, as this as this horizontal line in the image with the with the man kind of standing over being a vertical in vertical relationship to the woman it's a very simple powerful tool for helping to intuitively understand

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