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Please, wisdom - make me real!

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For :iconkingdomofsweden:s competition Fairy Tales :

1x4 tavling!Denna gång blir det lite annorlunda mot förra gången. I denna omgång har vi fyra tävlingar i en, vilket innebär vi har en tävling för Litteratur (prosa, sångtext och poesi), en för visuella verk (ex. foto, traditional art, digital art) och en för handgjorda verk (ex. smycken, cosplay-outfit). Vi har även en specialare som du kan läsa mer om lite längre ned. Fyra del-vinnare utses och en vinnare för tävlingen i stort.
Tema:
Klassiska sagor så som Rödluvan, Lilla sjöjungfrun, Hans & Greta osv.
Tidsram:
9 april - 30 juni (kan bli förlängt till 30 aug)
Hur man deltar:
:bulletblue: Skicka note med länk till ditt verk till gruppen med någon av titlarna:
"Saga: litteratur", "Saga: Visuellt", "Saga: Handgjort" eller "Gör din egen saga"
:bulletblue: Även om du deltar i alla fyra tävlingar behöver du skicka enski
 

I've chosen to illustrate a mashup between Pygmalion en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalio… and Pinocchio en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchi…

In the former tale a lonely Cypriot sculptor named Pygmalion makes a sculpture of a woman who he becomes so pleased with that he falls in love with her, names her Galathea and he wishes that she was a real woman. And eventually the goddess Aphrodite sees the lovely work (which, in some versions of the tale, was said to have been made to her likeness), hears Pygmalion's pleadings and she feels so moved by this that he turns the statue into a real woman.

In the second tale another lonely artist, the Italian Gepetto makes another sculpture, a boy-child in wood, a little marionette for theatre use. He dreams of a son instead of a woman. Eventually this human-alike sculpture also too becomes real. And this time the beneficiary lady is the nameless blue-haired fairy who hears Pinochio's pleading to turn him into a real boy to gladden his father Gepetto. (Perhaps it's Aphrodite again, who knows ;-) )

Nevertheless my tale features the robot girl Ornalda, created by the lonely professor Reginald Papadoma, to keep him company. And as she falls in love with her maker, she asks the goddess of wisdom, Athena, to turn her into a real woman, just like Pinocchio pleaded with the blue-haired fairy.

NB: These two stories are more or less variations of a theme - a dream of creating life from one's own hands. Life and love. A fascinating dream as old as humanity itself, and a story which has always fascinated me. A story which is repeated in many versions over the centuries, from Frankenstein, over the movie AI (which derives heavily from the Pinocchio theme) to My Fair Lady/Mannequin.  

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3D items from DAZ, Renderosity

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eamfos's avatar
my love...Athina..!!!...wonderful