Blue Porcelain by Ellie/Elaine FAYBEL (Nesbitt)

Title:	Blue Porcelain
Date Created:	February 2024
Copyright:	© FAYBEL
Genre:	Sci Fi
Mediums:	Photoshop
Views:	27
Posted:	12/8/2024

Projects: Ellie (FAYBEL) is currently running a limited-edition giclé e print series with Quirky Fox Gallery in New Zealand, with gallery shows scheduled in April, August and December of 2025 with Curio Art Gallery in Portugal (online) Nanny Goat Gallery in Petaluma, California and a local, solo exhibition with Mahtay Café & Lounge in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Ellie has a run of open series canvas and fine art prints with iCanvas. She will be in upcoming issues of 365 Art + Magazine, Pepper Magazine and Beautiful Bizarre Magazine: Ellie is acting as chief editor of " Art of the Phoenix: Path to the Inner Self" , a special issue of 365 Art + Magazine in Japan and bringing together a group of eight professional digital painters for a first exhibition of its kind in 2026. Many of her painted pieces are for " Timbretock" , her original, romantasy-fairytale, work-in-progress narrative.

Location: Ontario, Canada

Time it turns upon the hour,/ Upon the sacred blooming flower./ Fan in florid flurry blends,/ Whirling whispers of second hands./ The absent body of the fae, Miku, is reminiscent of the magically disappearing Cheshire Cat above the Queen and King of Hearts, with her extended, clock-hand, Cheshire grin, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The white porcelain cat that sits on a teacup handle does so much like the Cheshire Cat in a tree when conversing with Alice in Tenniel's illustrations. The melted teacup is a homage to Salvador Dali's surreal soft watches in "The Persistence of Memory" and the Mad Tea Party from Wonderland. Bittersweet elements of time are expressed through the presence of streaming droplets on the frosty-white windowpane background, as if waiting by a window on a chilly, winter day as well as through Miku's tearing eyes and forced, clock-hand grin. "Blue Porcelain" is a play between the vintage and techno-future, between the ephemeral and everlasting aspects of time--a remark on relativity.