#freshwaters

According to an old and still very widespread belief, acts performed on the very waters of fountains, or in their immediate vicinity, can modify the course of the elements, and especially cause rain and storms. (…) In 1661, [a] historian from Dauphiné, [stated the following]: "When it was excessively hot, the peoples flocked to the edges of a fountain located in the parish of E. ; there, the old men and the matrons chose a young and maiden girl, among all the most virtuous and the purest; then the young girl, stripped of her clothes and naked in her shirt, while the whole people were in prayer, immersed herself in the bosom of the fountain and purified her basin of all the filthy matter which troubled the limpidity of the water until it became crystalline again. Scarcely had the waters begun to reflect the beauty of the azure sky, when the storm rumbled on the horizon, and soon abundant rains came to quench the earth's thirst."

According to a legend which was told in time, some said to have seen, at the edge of the river T, " a ghost of a woman who cries, cries and looks at the water : it is the shadow of the city of E., which was once swallowed up. Her dress is woven with mists, her bare feet, torn by brambles, bathe in the mud, her head is soiled with silt. She cries tears of fire. Tomorrow, at daybreak, the child who will play on these shores will amass these frozen tears, pebbles the color of flame, with which he will play without thinking of the cursed one." -

Once I had the images ready, we began to rethink the structure of the site. With minor edits to the layout, the example of the landing page, became a lot cleaner and fitting with what Maureen had originally wanted us to create. With images leading to links and small ‘bio’ like captions to different sections, the site began to feel more alive in mine and Lakhi and designs. 

Throughout this commission/freelance job I throughly enjoyed working alongside a design studio (d237) https://www.d237.com/.

As a part of my illustrative process, I edited the original images and kept the focus on the people and books in the images. This meant that the images were a lot cleaner and used a lot more white space, which could be used to add text or links on, as well as possibly using them for backgrounds and banners.