LucyDai | Min Dai
I was born in Shanghai, China. The passion for art has been growing ever since the age of four, and she began taking classes for interest, such as learning to play a musical instrument(guzheng) and joining troupe. At that time I started learning contemporary art skills such as drawing. This gives a very good musical sense and a certain technical foundation. Soon figure out its in the wrong education system, preferring a creative curriculum to a fixed standard, so then moved from the system to the world and eventually to Pratt.
Recently, not only doing illustration works, but also creates series of animations in 2d and stopmotion animation forms.
As a new artist of Generation z, I expects to try more integration of technology and traditional skills in the future, and make certain achievements in animation
Idea Describe
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Recently, I came to realize that many well-known mythological stories are actually adaptations upon adaptations. The original image of the goddesses has long been distorted, blurred, even to the point where their fabricated husbands appear more like protagonists than the deities themselves. Around me, I see so many people invoking tradition and deities, yet the very gods they worship have in fact been persecuted by them. Even women’s menstruation is regarded as impure, barring them from entering temples (something I personally experienced in remote mountain regions).
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Most goddesses were originally embodiments of compassion, benevolence, and indomitable spirit, who descended to save humankind. They possessed ability and ambition, and never needed to depend on anyone else to achieve their redemption or accomplishments. I wish to use Tarot cards as a medium to reinterpret—or even reinvent—a mythology. Even if these goddesses continue to move along their pre-ordained scripts, even if they still fall in love, it is their own strength and spirit that will save them from betrayal and darkness, and ultimately guide them back to their true path.
