IDEAS: Sculpture/ Installation for Prince Amir

I think that one of the main moments and part of The Ash Girl is the way in which The Royal family feel in there new home land. 

This quote from the book by Price Amir depicts that the family, or a least Price Amir feels like an intruder in this land:

The Price is a stranger in a strange land. He has been forced to flee his country because of a political situation. His mother wants his to marry a local girl, but Price Amir thinks his neighbours are all too white. 

I feel that his struggle with moving to a new place, being thrown into a new culture and having to get used to it, is something he seems to struggle with. I get the feeling that his relationship with his mother is ok but I don't believe that there is really any sense of authority. He is easy swayed by the Seven Deadly Sins which he comes across but learns to not be so easily manipulated.  

His emotions through the story, go along with the Seven Deadly Sins and only at the Ball is he truly happy with where he is and he feels welcomed, this is when he meets Ashie. 

My ideas about Price Amir are as followed...
- Scared.
- Unwelcome.
- An outside to a culture.
- Worried about the people of the land not liking him or his family.
- Easily swayed by the SDS.
- Determined to find the girl who's foot fits the slipper.
- Courage.


For the scuplture, I feel it important to show the Forest in which he travels into to find Ashie. The forest has been used a lot in fairy tales as it gives the sense of fear and death. Although none of the characters actually die in the play the idea of the death of hope, really shout out to me. Ashie loses the shoe she has in the forest and could be lost forever. However both Ashie and Price Amir go into the forest willingly and confidently that they both find what they are looking for even with the Sins gathering intent on processing them. 



Things I think about which relate to The Ash Girl story and Prince Amir...

- The Forest - Dark, Impending, Death, vulnerable to the wild, Young, Lost, Dangerous
- The Sins - Angerbird, Slothworm, Pridefly, Envysnake, Greedmonkey, Lust, Gluttontoad and                          Sadness. 
- Downward spirl.
- Haunting and dead.
- Scary and Gloomy.
- Two different people, parallels coming together.
- Colours.
- Sins and miss guiding
- Family & Friends
- Confusion
- Hope 
- Luxury
- Diminishing