wazo design - Rachelle Soucy

I have started working on my piece for a group show in June at the Snelgrove Gallery. I will have three self-portraits based on 17th Century Dutch still-life paintings, also known as vanitas. Typically vanitas paintings are highly symbolic and are meant as a reminder of the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death. Pictured below is my first try at scanning myself with flowers. I want to somehow include more vanitas symbols, such as skulls, hourglasses, bugs, rotting fruit and flowers.


This summer, I am working in a collaboration to photograph fairytale narratives. I was trying to find images from Alice in Wonderland, and I came across Arthur Rackham. He illustrated a lot of fairytales, but my favourite illustrations of his are from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Some of these illustrations are pictured below.