Festina Lente by Fallowdoe (SFW)
Jan. 2nd, 2011 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Fandom: Angel: the Series
Characters: Illyria
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Ink
Artist on DW/LJ:
fallowdoe
Artist Website/Gallery: http://www.teaattheford.net
Why this piece is awesome: I love the combination, in this piece, of formal, disciplined layout and spookily alien, futuristic subject. I love the stark black and white paired with all those luxurious swirls. I love the lines curling and bending around Illyria's body, like eddies in the air, or in time itself; Illyria, if you remember, starts out fluid in time (and the FX used to show her manipulation of time look a bit like these). Then there's the delicious irony of the lettering, "Festina lente" draped in more, but cobwebbier, time-lines, because all Illyria's vast plans, her temple and her army, are crumbled to dust before she is able to return for them.
Link: Festina Lente
Characters: Illyria
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Ink
Artist on DW/LJ:
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Artist Website/Gallery: http://www.teaattheford.net
Why this piece is awesome: I love the combination, in this piece, of formal, disciplined layout and spookily alien, futuristic subject. I love the stark black and white paired with all those luxurious swirls. I love the lines curling and bending around Illyria's body, like eddies in the air, or in time itself; Illyria, if you remember, starts out fluid in time (and the FX used to show her manipulation of time look a bit like these). Then there's the delicious irony of the lettering, "Festina lente" draped in more, but cobwebbier, time-lines, because all Illyria's vast plans, her temple and her army, are crumbled to dust before she is able to return for them.
Link: Festina Lente