1303-1316 contains legions of hares shooting crossbows and catapulting stones at knights, all in a lovely blue and orange color palette. This liturgical illuminated manuscript from c. When choosing her characters, Wood became drawn to the medieval hare after seeing their diabolical behavior in the marginalia of the Pontifical of Renaud de Bar.
#Medieval manuscript art storytelling series
Wood’s expert execution of narration can be observed not only in the series as a whole, but within the compositions of each panel, arranged in the style of a comic book. Flat, stylized characters, anthropomorphic subjects, and the minimal modeling of perspective in her compositions nod to Medieval influences, while the accompanying text under each panel demonstrates her aptitude for storytelling. Through this narrative series of hand tufted rugs, Wood illuminates the antagonistic qualities of choice and inevitability. The more one dips and oxidizes the fibers, the darker blue they become. The dye becomes a dark yellowy green with a shimmery blue flower on top. The addition of an alkaline solution helps the woad to fasten to the fiber. The woad dye vat is very similar to indigo. In its second year, the plant may grow up to 6 feet tall and blossom bright yellow flowers in early May, around when Mathilde’s birthday fell.
In its first year, it grows a group of spinach-like leaves, which is how the dye is produced. Woad ( Isatis tinctoria) is a plant native to the Mediterranean, commonly used for dyeing in Medieval Europe and Britain. Over the course of a year, Elisabet’s focus shifts from her dyework to caring for her ageing Ancestor, and the acceptance of the inevitable. Elisabet is the dyer in her village, primarily working with woad. The story takes place in a settlement of quasi-medieval hares. Her most recent body of work, Woad, is a twelve-page story inspired by her relationship with her grandmother Mathilde, who suffered from dementia in her later years of life. Her desire is for each of her pieces to tell a story to the viewer, whether it consists of multiple panels or a singular surface. Finding inspiration in medieval marginalia, folklore, and all living creatures that display a great deal of personality, Wood relishes in the challenge of conveying complex emotions with a simple facial expression.
Contemporary artist Haley Wood is a medieval storyteller at heart.
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