To add another, local character to this series I used one of the old victorian fairy-images of -The Cottingley Fairies- which were being taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins who lived in Cottingley. The photographs were taken in 1917. Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 10. These photographs were believed to be genuine, as no one was able to prove they were fake until the early 80´s, when Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs were fake using cardboard cutouts of fairies copied from a popular children´s book (princess mary´s gift book) of the time. Frances continued, that some photographs were genuine, whilst others were fake.
From a today´s point of view it seems incredible, that images like this are taken for real for over 60 years. Photoshop, and digital, available photo-manipulation seems to be the reason for the stronger scepticism, although the Cottingley Fairies show, that a 16- and 10 year old girl can create fake images with such an impact - without photoshop!
I only painted a section of one of the photos, as in this case I wanted the -fake object- to be strongly in the foreground. I quite enjoy playing with the obviousness and the hidden in this series.
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