Yes, I have been absent. Yes, I apologize, even if I know that nobody reads blogs anymore. Anyway, I want to share the details of the film poster I have painted for my friend and colleague Heidi Philipsen. Heidi is the head of our Media Studies education, she teaches screenplay writing, she is the author of various books and now she is finalist in a film competition to select the best film idea based on Fyn, the island we live in in Denmark. She is the perfect character for my No Small Part project, which I am resuming starting from now, there are so many great women I know I cannot stop now, plus they sent me their pictures ;) The concept for the movie, which is entitled Det Sidste Ønske-The last Wish, is an on the road dark comedy, on death and family. She asked me to paint a map of Fyn, showing the itinerary that the character take across Fyn to reach in the end Ebeltoft, in Jutland. Here you can see how the final painting and how it evolved: As you can see, please you can trust me on this, we have a map of Fyn. Of course there imprecisions: my better half made me aware that there are hills on the centre of Fyn. The city of Odense, the main city of the island, where we live, is of course the greatest absent. But, please be patient, I focused on the main lines of the story behind the movie concept and I have highlighted the towns, which the characters visit, including the little place of Munkebo, where they have a car accidents, and the workshop in Fjeldsted, where they stop to repair their car.
I also highlighted a few landmarks such as: the bell tower from Svendborg, the castle in Nyborg, The ObservatoryTower on the hils of Munkebo, and the Lillebælt suspended bridge in Middelfart, a bit like the Brooklyn bridge, connecting Fyn to the Jutland peninsula. The main protagonist is the Volkswagen van of the characters. I added a few extra symbols, first the vulture sitting on Fjeldsted road sign, suggesting that death is waiting the characters at the end of their trip. To counterbalance the death symbol I have added seagulls, a symbol of freedom, who are flying over Svendborg, their peaceful place of departure. Moreover, I wasn't very conscious of it, but one thing I love of Denmark is the continuity between sea and sky that you can experience while visiting the small gulfs, fiords and the many island. I kind of reproduced tis feeling as I have a semi-flat vision of the island, as the background starts as the sea, which waves moving around the coast, but then it turns to the sky with the little cloud added on the left-bottom and right-top of the picture. So that on the right-top I am not so sure if at the back of Nyborg Castle or the Observatory Tower of Munkebo I am watching the sea or the sky. This indetermination, this ambiguity of the blue of the sea and the sky fading into each other, is what I love the most of the Danish watery landscape.
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