
Artist's commentary
Gloucester in 2018
If only she had never seen the future...
If only she had never inherited the High Queen's duty...
If only paradise had given her a different mission...
And if only...the Faerie Britain she imagined in her dreams had continued...
Surely, many faeries would have come to visit the dazzling fortress. It would have been filled with blinding sunlight and the laughter of good friends. There would have been many happy lives crossing paths on the street. She wouldn't be wearing anything fancy, but she would have worn a familiar, star-shaped hairpin.
This is what her spring memories might have been like. Even if that future never came to pass, surely there would have been days like this...