For this project our group chose to find an old folk tale that we could take and reinterpret in a fashion and current style. We chose the story of Baba Yaga - on old Slavic story, originating in Russia but has been passed on to different generations and cultures, each with different variations.
Baba Yaga is a witch that lives in the woods in a house built on the top of a giant chicken foot. In some variations of the story it is told that she kidnaps children and then eats them. Others say she flies around in a giant pestle and mortar causing havoc to villages surrounding the wood. In most stories it explains how she ages by one year every time someone asks her a question but then this process is reversed if she drink tea with blue roses in it. It also states that she is the communicator between the real world and the world of the dead.
Our concept for this project will be a modernized version of this story, picking out a specific element that can be translated through issues within society that we see today. Our image will talk about women's obsession with beauty and the quest for youth and how some women hide away from society if they do not think they fulfill the media's ideals about what it is to look young. This relates to the story as it talks about Baba Yaga's isolation and spite towards others around her and what she undergoes in order to recapture her youth.
Project schedule and priorities within the group:
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