A few months ago I entered the Cheltenham Illustration Awards; the brief was to produce a piece in response to Holst's The Planets, and relate it to the theme of memory.

I loosely related it to a dream I'd had, and used that as a springboard to create a narrative of a girl who flies a paper crane only for it to disintegrate and for her to turn into a real crane herself. Each horizontal section of panels corresponds to the movements of Holst's piece.

Mars: Bold and dramatic

Venus: Solitary, reflective and calm

Mercury: Flighty and playful

Jupiter: Togetherness

Saturn: Ominous and wise

Uranus: Dramatic and dark

Neptune: Solitary and slow

 

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