interventions: Bluebeard
The folk tale “Bluebeard” (“La Barbe Bleue”) was published 1697 and is not as well known-as a fairytale in the United States, the character of Bluebeard was based on the 15th-century French nobleman and serial killer, Gilles de Rais. Bluebeard was the wealthy blue-bearded man who slit the throats of his half-dozen wives, leaving their corpses in the basement of his castle.This appears to be a fairy tale that was specifically aimed at little girls,” teaching little girls to love a man who will kill them and the attempts of one wife to escape the fate of her predecessors. Bluebeard is a story of horror and magic but is a fairy tale because it combines the real world with fantasy and includes characters which are either good or evil.
The selection of images below documents two out of five rogue events installed in November 2020, New York, NY,
materials: acrylic paint, acid-free ink, archival watercolor paper (22 X 30 inches)
