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Fairy Tale Remnants is a collection of surreal narrative illustrations and writing about characters pulled out of dreams. Skeletons, professional fighters, an exotic dancer, historical figures, mythological beasts, fated lovers, a stalker, a naked merchant, a robot, and reptiles show up and confront each within the confines of an otherworldly arena devoted to playing out scenes from our collective unconscious. The protagonists' rendering is reminiscent of artists such as George Grosz and Otto Dix with a nod to cartoon characters, fighting symbolic battles in the spirit of Greek Gods and Goddesses. In these modern fables, no one ever learns anything. The audience watches anyway, pulled in by the dark symbolism of these cultural icons engaging in new contemporary folklore tinged with creepiness and humor. From the author: Inspiration for these subconsciously fueled images come from my childhood and young adulthood watching cartoons from Tom and Jerry to Felix the Cat, reading comic books like Mad Magazine to Weirdo to Viz. Graphic novels by Edward Gorey and Alice in Wonderland. Drawn to the surreal and the absurd, watching an episode of Monty Python on Public Television was the height of joy for me as an eleven-year-old. Anthropomorphic beasts from everywhere from Hindu Mythology to fairies from Celtic myths to talking crows in Aesop's Fables made their way into my thinking.

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This book feels like the deliciously bizarro intersection of a child's wild fever dream and a grown-up's super color-saturated fantasy world. Visual escapism at its most gratifying and thought-provoking, for ages 9 to 90. PAUL RAFF Comedy Writer/Producer Absurd Planet, The Man Show, Crank Yankers

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In her career as a professional artist, Nathalie Tierce has worked on projects as diverse as productions for Shel Silverstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Rolling Stones, period dramas for the BBC, feature films such as Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and painting murals for Disney. Her relationship to theater and film nurtured her desire to connect to people through storytelling in her paintings and drawings. Born and raised in New York City, Nathalie received her formal training at Pratt Institute in New York and The Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She then spent ten years in Europe refining her craft as a painter. She frequently exhibits in galleries in the Greater Los Angeles area and maintains a studio in Glendale, CA where she lives with her sculptor husband and son. In her career as a professional artist, Nathalie Tierce has worked on projects as diverse as productions for Shel Silverstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Rolling Stones, period dramas for the BBC, feature films such as Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and painting murals for Disney. Her relationship to theater and film nurtured her desire to connect to people through storytelling in her paintings and drawings. Born and raised in New York City, Nathalie received her formal training at Pratt Institute in New York and The Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She then spent ten years in Europe refining her craft as a painter. She frequently exhibits in galleries in the Greater Los Angeles area and maintains a studio in Glendale, CA where she lives with her sculptor husband and son.

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