Irena's Universe
Irena and her Cronies
Media: Polymer Clay
Size: 11"x 4.5"x 4.5"
made in 2020
A long long time ago, the queen of the evil witches had a daughter. According to a prophecy, the girl was destined to be the most powerful witch of all.
She named her Irena.
As Irena was growing up, everyone expected her powers to bloom.
But instead, she turned out to be the weakest and most fragile among the queen’s daughters.
Every time an evil spell was cast, Irena would scream and suffer. Not only was she unable to hurt any living being, but she could feel the pain of others, including the pain that ruled evil hearts.
She could access and understand their fears, weaknesses, and anger.
So one day, weary of that burden, she ran away into the forest.
Irena then dedicated her life to finding a cure for wickedness and wrongdoings. She was determined to end the pain in those evil hearts, thus avoiding the pain they’d cause in others.
Since she didn’t want to be lonely, Irena created magical friends and helpers, the Cronies. Each Cronie was a lucky charm with its own special power: Healing, love, good fortune, fertility, strength.
One day, she finally discovered the formula for a potion that is the secret of happiness and eradicates all evil. The main ingredient was right there all along: her own tears.
Oh, but not every evil heart desired to be cured. However, since everyone wanted a Cronie, they spread around the world giving people whatever they needed, not knowing she also made them carry her secret potion… With every wish granted by a Cronie, people would also get a bit of it, and it was the most precious and powerful gift Irene had to offer: Empathy.
Meet the Cronies
Irma-
Meet Irma, the Queen of Witches. a new character that belongs to Irena's universe.
Irena is my first character with a background story and will become my first book. Irma is her mother, and I couldn't just give Irena a mother without a great story!
She doesn't appear much in Irena's first book, but she turned to be such a great character that had inspired me to create her own book in the future.
In her story, we’ll discover that children continuously teach parents just as much as parents teach them. Irena is the only one who can truly see her mother’s
heart.
Media: Polymer Clay
Size: 11"x 4.5"x 4.5"
made in 2020
Powerful and merciless. Cold and cruel. Words like these have been used to describe Irma. You
would think she is evil. Indeed, she’s a master of dark magic: an evil queen known for stomping on
those who threaten her throne.
It’s easy to judge from outside her shoes. But evil hearts are hearts in pain.
Long ago, when Irma was a little girl, her village was attacked by men accusing them of witchcraft,
even though they were harmless healers. Born with the rare gift of divination, she had seen the
attack in a vision and warned her mother. Sadly, her mother had time to prepare just one last spell,
only for Irma; the power to shape-shift into her spirit animal: an owl.
By the time the men arrived, Irma had flown away, and from a nearby treetop, she helplessly sobbed
as she watched the village burn.
Since then, when she closes her eyes, she’s tormented with visions of her sorrowful past. Trauma and grief turned her gift into a curse; but shape-shifting kept her safe.
With time, she gathered the strength to fight and conquer her land alongside other survivors.
Eventually, she became their ruler and queen.
I’d have to agree: Irma is ruthless! But she’s not an unfair queen: she just won’t tolerate exposing her realm to danger. And perhaps the inhumane assault upon her childhood village made her lose some of her humanity.
She cannot sleep; instead, she uses her time to perfect spells meant to protect younger witches and wizards from the outside world.
But recently, and to Irma’s surprise, she had another crystal clear vision: one of hope… a new family:a little girl! A daughter who is destined to become the most powerful witch of all, Irena.
The Fairy of Beauty
Media: Polymer Clay
Size: 7.8" x 5.3"x 5.3"
made in 2019
One night a star fell, causing a big explosion right in the centre of the flower field, on the Womb Forest, the kingdom of fairies.
I was born from this explosion… no mom… no dad… and worse… no wings!
I had no idea who I was, or even what I was
wingless, ugly, unfit…
When I turned 10, I was given the mission to go to the humans world and define beauty … so… anything I declared beautiful was then considered as so by all Humans.
Over all missions that’s mine? how silly!
But, of corse they had to give me something easy… cause I wasn’t good for anything bigger than that.
I landed in the planet Earth, and I saw a woman with her fat baby, and I found the scene touching. So, I stated that beauty was fatness
As a result of my declaration, many women tried to gain weight by all means. They couldn’t, though. In fact, there
were many who got quite sick because of it.
Trying to fix this mistake, I declared that thinness was the most beautiful thing in the world. It took me like “two seconds” to discover that hunger was sad and ugly. Oh, gee, what a mess!
After a while, I realized that whenever I defined something as beautiful, people started to become obsessed with it. It happened with high heels, corsets, hairstyles. It could be funny if it wasn’t tragic: humans got hurt by their infatuation with my beauty rules.
I was so confused and lost! And so upset with all the madness I caused!
it doesnt matter what I choose, it will be a mess!
I was so done with it!
So I decided to hide beauty from them, on a very hard place to find!
But where I could hide it…
That’s it… I found the perfect spot!
I’ve hidden beauty inside the pure hearts, so they can’t see with their eyes… but they can feel it!
As soon as I put beauty inside the heart, something magical happened… I look behind me… and for the first time, I saw my own wings!
I had wings! I’ve always had them… I just couldn’t see them… and yes, now I can fly, and go back home
Humans still gets confused because of all the mess I’ve done with beauty… but I know that one day they will figure it out and find their own beauty, just like I did!
Philautia- Loves me... Loves me not
Media: Polymer Clay
Size: 7.8" x 5.3"x 5.3"
made in 2019
The Witch Philautia is in love, and no matter her looks she always gets what she wants: she is the master of love spells! Philautia means self-love. Because nothing is more seductive than a person with self-esteem!
Love begins with self-love!
Cheers to la Vida
Media: Apoxie Clay, Resin, Mix media
Size: 11" length x 7.5" width x 17" height
made in 2021
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