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AWAKENING

by Kseniya Lvova (#kseniya lvova)

no. 2/ 43
'Awakening' created for slashTHREE Exhibition #18

At the christening of a long-wished-for princess, seven fairies invited as godmothers offer gifts: beauty, wit, musical talent and other virtues. However, as her gift, a wicked fairy who was overlooked, having been within a certain tower and thought to be either dead or enchanted, places the princess under an enchantment, saying that, on reaching adulthood, she will pierce her hand on a spindle and die. However, one last fairy has yet to give her gift. She partially reverses the wicked fairy's curse, proclaiming that the princess will instead fall into a deep sleep for 100 years and be awoken by a king's son.