New series - Memories and fairy tales

Here are some progress shots of a new series I've been working on about childhood, memory, and growing up. 

Psychology teaches that memories are fickle (and any good lawyer or judge knows that eye-witness testimony, especially that given sometimes months or even years later, is faulty). 

 Goldilocks

Do you have a vivid memory from childhood? Can you describe the story? Now... really observe your visual memory of that story... are you seeing yourself in it? 
If you can picture yourself in that story, then that is the first proof that the memory is faulty. You see through your own eyes in life, you don't observe your own self as a third-person narrator. So what does that mean about that memory: how accurate is it? 

 Remembering Oz

That's the idea behind the "memories" of children's fantasy and fairy tales in these pieces. 

Remembering Oz detail

I have also been drawn to the novels of Gregory Maguire; his adult revisionist re-tellings of fairy tales such as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West) and Cinderella (Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister) give a new perspective on well-known stories, playing on childhood fantasy and giving them a grounding in somewhat realistic historical societies. 

Whatever Happened to Wonderland?

More pieces in the series to come!