{"id":21371,"date":"2022-12-02T13:03:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=21371"},"modified":"2022-11-19T13:12:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T18:12:45","slug":"the-queen-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2022\/12\/02\/the-queen-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21372 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/light-queen-1024x796.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/light-queen-1024x796.png 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/light-queen-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/light-queen-768x597.png 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/light-queen.png 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hello, I&#8217;m in a Fae-Dragon mood this month. What are the Fae-Dragons, you ask? They&#8217;re a group of minor Fae nobility and their retinue who got stuck in Yggdrasil when Ragnarok happened. For mutual survival, they merged societies with the native dragons and became the Fae-Dragons. More power and survivability, in return for never being able to go back to either community.<\/p>\n<p>The Fae-Dragons have a rotating revenue of powerful rulers. This is the Queen of Light, who rules for the summer months each year. I based her outfit on Venician carnival wear, Versailles fashion, and the musical <em>Six\u00a0<\/em>and Beyonce. I wanted to give her a sense of power and mystique. I added black to her palette because the sun may be strong and shiny, but it&#8217;ll turn into a black hole one day, signaling the astronomical power of destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I&#8217;m in a Fae-Dragon mood this month. What are the Fae-Dragons, you ask? They&#8217;re a group of minor Fae nobility and their retinue who got stuck in Yggdrasil when Ragnarok happened. For mutual survival, they merged societies with the native dragons and became the Fae-Dragons. More power and survivability, in return for never being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2248,"featured_media":21373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21374,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21371\/revisions\/21374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}