Halloween Flight is a series of graphite drawings that capture a sense of the mystery and eeriness of Halloween that begins with a cat winding its way through trick or treaters. The title primarily refers to the transformation of this cat into a crow halfway through the series.
The word Halloween coming from All Hallow’s Eve, a Christian holiday for remembrance of the dead that originated more than a thousand years ago. Halloween, however, reaches much further back to very ancient harvest celebrations and older traditions of remembering the dead. The series can also be viewed in terms of these older traditions through the story’s symbolic undercurrents.
This book ends with a second series of graphite drawings, Changelings. A changeling is the substitute for a human child stolen away by the fairy folk. This series is about how a person is simultaneously hidden and revealed –replaced- by a mask.
Artist and author, Bruce Walters, is a Professor of Art at Western... More > Illinois University.< Less
